Definition of beatdown
1
US, informal
: a violent physical beating
… said his own client was badly hurt in a beatdown by NYPD officers …— Shayna Jacobs
2
US, informal
: 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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The first known use of beatdown was in 1989
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