pasting

1 of 2

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

pasting

2 of 2

present participle of paste entry 2, paste entry 3

Examples of pasting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

So many visitors get suckered into pasting and running the command that just about every malware pusher has adopted the technique. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026

Then the Bulldogs wisely pulled him on the way to a 63-3 pasting of Tennessee State. — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Imagine a sales executive pasting customer data into a public chatbot or a software developer giving an AI coding assistant access to the company’s private code repository. — Etay Maor, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026

In Erasmus’s view, cutting and pasting still basically yields a copy, and a very dumb one to boot. — Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for pasting

• basting
• hasting
• tasting
• wasting