shellacking

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of shellac form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

shellackings plural

词源

词源 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
词源 2
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".
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