Meaning of Shellacking | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or process of coating with shellac.
   countable, uncountable
2. A heavy defeat, drubbing, or beating; used particularly in sports and political contexts.
   US, countable, informal, uncountable

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Examples

“The News baseball team defeated the Press-Guardian outfit, 8 to 4, in a recent game, which squares accounts for the shellacking the News received a year ago.”

“Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me!"”

“Our baseball team got off to an indifferent start at the beginning of the season, but […] "Steve" Newman gave Gonzalo another shellacking that he won't forget for some time.”

“Unity and democracy are still taking a shellacking here on the home front, despite our successes in the Marshall Islands and in Italy.”

“After many months of watching its public image take a shellacking as a result of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, Congress finally started to move on lobby reform.”

“[C]learly Obama hopes that just as Clinton recovered from his party's midterm shellacking in 1994 to win re-election two years later, so can he.”

“Bochy was speaking for the masses, who watched a supposed duel of Cy Young award winners evolve into a full-fledged shellacking.”

“Now, I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I took last night.”

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