- a whipping; flogging; beating
- a thorough defeat
shellacking
shel·lack·ingWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
- Present participle of shellac.
Noun
(plural shellackings)
Origin
Noun sense: shellac is used in floor polish; compare polishing, as in "the other boxer in the match polished the floor with me; I took quite a polishing".
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