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They took a shellacking in yesterday's game.
suffered a shellacking at the hands of a vastly superior opposition
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Australia endured one of their worst home performances in years after a shellacking against an underdog India.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Detroit Lions star Amon-Ra St. Brown extended his touchdown streak to three games in the team’s 47-9 shellacking of the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
—Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
The three-game winning streak over the Volunteers -- built via a 49-7 shellacking in 2011, a 24-20 road win in 2015 and a 24-13 home win in the covid-19 year of 2020 -- is the longest active win streak against any SEC opponent for the Hogs.
—Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024
On May 23, 2002, the left-handed-hitting Green smashed four home runs, a double and a single, amassing a major league-record 19 total bases and driving in seven runs to lead the Dodgers to a 16-3 shellacking of the Milwaukee Brewers in Miller Park.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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First Known Use
1931, in the meaning defined above
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“Shellacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shellacking. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
shellacking
noun
shel·lack·ing
shə-ˈlak-iŋ
: a lopsided defeat
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