shellacking
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nounDefinition of SHELLACKING
: a decisive defeat : drubbing
See Examples of SHELLACKING
- They took a shellacking in yesterday's game.
- <suffered a shellacking at the hands of a vastly superior opposition>
First Known Use of SHELLACKING
1931
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