shellacking

n. 鞭打, 彻底击败, 殴打

词形变化

shellackings 复数 shellackings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act or process of coating with shellac.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A heavy defeat, drubbing, or beating; used particularly in sports and political contexts.

    美国 可数 非正式 不可数

    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.

    [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.

v.
  1. 1.

    present participle and gerund of shellac

词源

From shellac + -ing. 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".

来源：wiktionary