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Definitions
Present participle of shellac
Word origin
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".
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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