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

The Dukes won the East Division title in the Sun Belt, wrapping up an 8-0 conference season on Saturday with a 59-10 pasting of visiting Coastal Carolina. —Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025

Press Taylor dazzled with 27 points and six assists in a 20-point pasting for Farmington (5-0). —Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2025

The week after your party just took an off-year pasting for, among other things, having the wrong priorities seems like a highly unusual moment to grant symbolic pardons of wildly controversial figures. —Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 11 Nov. 2025

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

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for pasting

• basting
• hasting
• tasting
• wasting