Definition of "shellacking" in Anglais

verb

1. present participle and gerund of shellac

noun

1. The act or process of coating with shellac.

2. (informal, US) A heavy defeat, drubbing, or beating; used particularly in sports and political contexts.

   • 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.