pasting

noun

past·​ing ˈpā-stiŋ 

plural pastings

1

: a severe beating

But after a nasty confrontation, Phil … discovers the truth—that his son got the bruises when boys at school gave him a pasting.

—Daily Star

(figurative) Those who today complain about the "unprecedented" attack on religious conservatives forget Mencken's treatment of Southern fundamentalists, and then there were his pastings of Rotarians, professors and FDR.

—Dave Shiflett

2

: a dominating defeat of an opponent

… have won seven of nine since then, including a 12-1 pasting of the Colorado Rockies on Friday night at Coors Field.

—George Willis

… rushed for six touchdowns in Colorado's 62-36 pasting of second-ranked Nebraska.

—Austin Murphy

Examples of pasting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Bobbitt said the issue may have been with incorrectly copying and pasting numbers. —Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025

Whatever pearl-clutching resulted from Friday night’s 11-4 pasting by the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the 2025 World Series was short-lived. —Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 26 Oct. 2025

Parmar also deliberately streamlines clinic notes by encouraging his providers to avoid the common habit of copying and pasting blocks of obsolete or redundant information in favor of quick updates that can be scanned easily at subsequent visits. —Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025

Save your capture as a PNG or JPG, or copy it to your clipboard for quick pasting. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for pasting

• basting
• hasting
• tasting
• wasting