Definition of beatdown
US, informal
1
: a violent physical beating
- … said his own client was badly hurt in a beatdown by NYPD officers …
- —Shayna Jacobs
2
: an emphatic or overwhelming defeat
- … he was sitting in his Eugene hotel room, … while absorbing a beatdown in PlayStation 3 boxing from his 10-year-old brother Seth.
- —Tim Layden
