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Definition of smackdown
1 : the act of knocking down or bringing down an opponent
2 : a contest in entertainment wrestling
3 : a decisive defeat
4 : a confrontation between rivals or competitors
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Alabama's dominating 54-16 smackdown of Florida in last year's SEC Championship Game at the Georgia Dome showcased the growing chasm between Alabama and everybody else.
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Clearly, even uncontroversial experts on intelligence have not converged on the smackdown kind of consensus on race and IQ that experts on, say, climate change largely have.
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A spinning of the lip-sync smackdown wheel lead to two teams: Trinity Taylor would take on Peppermint; and Shea would face her friend and collaborator Sasha Velour.
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Both, though, hope to deliver one epic final smackdown to polio, a disease once feared in much of the world that has now been nearly eradicated.
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But there’s much, much more going on here than a Godzilla vs. Optimus Prime smackdown.
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On just his twenty-first day in office, three very senior federal judges, one of them a Republican appointee, issued a stunning smackdown of his divisive and dangerous approach to governing.
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Then again, the N.F.L. already staged its own smackdown between Goodell and Robert Kraft, the Patriots’ owner, whose mild-mannered demeanor went out the window a week before the Super Bowl last year.
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What might have been a self-satisfied smackdown of reality TV and its audience has become a challenging and delectably entertaining drama about power and deception, idealism and cynicism.
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First Known Use of smackdown
1997
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