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shellacking noun a beating; a defeat US, 1931- Now Frank ’n’ me got our pictures in the paper, and my old man would’ve given me a shellacking if Sam didn’t stop him. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 101, 1947
- Take a licking, a real shellacking and see how she likes that! — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 255, 1955
- [Y]ou knew you was going to get a shellacking every time they’d catch you. — Harry King, Box Man, p. 79, 1972
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