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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
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And the result, in the end, was a 10-2 beatdown at the hands of the Detroit Tigers.
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LSU's Kramer Robertson and Greg Deichmann spoke to the SEC Network following the Tigers' 11-0 beatdown of South Carolina.
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In the Warriors’ Game 2 beatdown of the Spurs, Simmons seemed like the only one who took the loss personally.
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But the way the Blue Jays played the last couple of games this season, including the 19-6 beatdown by Duke, has to irritate some Hopkins followers.
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And the announcement of the biggest fight that can be made in boxing was broadcast to HBO's pay-per-view audience, which needed the jolt to wake it up after the one-sided beatdown.
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There was a general feistiness in the home clubhouse, even after a 15-hit beatdown that included 11 extra-base hits, the most against the Twins in 19 years.
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For all the thrilling visuals, however, the plot never gains much momentum, and the verbal beatdowns that Drax layers upon characters like Mantis (a literally wide-eyed Pom Klementieff) are repetitive, obvious and painfully tone-deaf.
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Predicted Final Score: Alabama 34, Texas A&M 24 Middle Tennessee at Missouri Missouri suffered a beatdown at the hands of Florida last week, while Middle Tennessee lost a heartbreaker to rival Western Kentucky.
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First Known Use of beatdown
1989
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