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单词 smackdown
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Definition of smackdown in English:

smackdown

noun
US informal
  • 1A bitter contest or confrontation.

    the famously crusty Democrat had a series of smackdowns with the Governor
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Or maybe he's worn out from competing with the furious film director in a smackdown of comparative auras.
    • One of the big guys will come up with some dumb thing or other, and next thing you know, two weeks later, it's spread to the rest of the plane: ‘Hey, let's start referring to the debates as smackdowns!’
    • A smackdown between these two was inevitable; that it would be covered by salivating media reporters was bound to occur.
    • On its own, this sequel is simply a cat-and-mouse procedural, dotted with the occasional smackdown and pyrotechnics display.
    • I want to tell you one thing: I'll take you Times Square later and lay the smackdown on you.
    • The suspended beauty of dining upstairs comes at the expense of no acoustical buffer, and when the bar is clamorous, the sound rises up, rounds the arches, and comes crashing onto this suspended atoll like a final smackdown.
    • The Crossfire smackdown was one of the best media moments of 2004
    • I braced myself for a smackdown but nearly everyone left considerate, measured, and often enlightening commentary - even the people who totally disagreed with me.
    • But, judging from this independent action film, those crazy kids from down under love the smackdown as much as our home-grown gangs.
    • With no alternative, she learns to fight and confronts him for the final smackdown.
    • They are having an intellectual smackdown on the growth in income inequality in the United States over the past two decades and what to make of it.
    • It looked less like a demo, more like one of those wrestling smackdowns on television.
    • Nevertheless, I think you'd have to admit this is one of most evenly matched smackdowns.
    • Like an old ethnography, the film's musical smackdowns are rich in cultural and racial stereotypes: Mexicans play a mariachi, Africans beat drums, a Thai man plays a mournful oriental flute.
    • Not so much a massacre as ‘four scumbags getting beat up,’ the smackdown in the prison is relatively tame.
    • Back in 1993, the handbag market was largely a tedious landscape of brown and black leather, light years away from the kaleidoscopic smackdown it has become.
    • The facts, however, tell a different story as the senior editor shows in his solid smackdown of the article.
    • Let's move on from the smackdowns to a militant, united front between smart artists like those guys, and smart users/technologists like Ecyrd that can and will present compelling alternatives to the technology companies.
    • Wrestling gets the improv smackdown in local indie film
    • You pick the CEO you've been dying to punch out, then square off in a CEO smackdown at the annual Davos gathering of global pooh-bahs!
  • 2A decisive or humiliating defeat or setback.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lay the smackdown hard enough and Goodenow starts crying.
    • Seeing a Japanese woman, a supermodel no less, putting the smackdown on American grunts was fulfillment of a timely revenge fantasy for Japanese audiences.
    • His tongue-in-cheek lyrics and sex-drenched growling vocals, gave a huge smackdown to the critics and music industry tools blatant ignorance of indie bands.
    • Infused then with the enlightenment only a brutal smackdown from a celestial being can provide, Jacob sets out to make peace with his brother, no matter the cost.
    • For a withering smackdown, read his take on the interview in the the magazine.
    • There was a t-shirt which had the heading… ‘Putting the smackdown on heresy since 1981.’
    • Once free, it's entirely likely the King of the Jungle and his trusty herd of elephants will save the day by laying a smackdown on the hostile tribe.
    • While you get the impression that, if he chose to, Dog could lay a serious smackdown on a bail-jumping ne'er-do-well, that seems to be the furthest thing from his mind.
    • I sure as hell wasn't going to instigate this fight, I thought - but if he starts, I'm gonna lay the smackdown, right here, in front of all these people.
    • After putting the smackdown on a monster in the forest, the ancient Babylonian hero Gilgamesh took a trip to the world of the dead.
    • At one stage she was wrestling with Jenna when Barbara leaped from atop the ropes to deliver a smackdown of epic proportions.
    • First my neighbor steals my plants, and then I have to administer the smackdown to some poor senile old lady to get them back.
    • Yes, it's sad and it's the Erica smackdown we've been waiting for and it's tragic - but it's also none of those things.
    • He gives it the light smackdown that it warrants.
    • Technically, you could go around laying the smackdown on whoever you like, but responsibility for your own actions is ultimately down to you.
    • I especially like the smackdown for people who wear the t-shirt of the band they are going to see.
    • The smackdown Susan delivered Karl upon hearing about his baby was bone-scrapingly hilarious.
    • The feminist foundation gets a bit of a smackdown, too, for inviting Tyler to speak at an event, and then hissing when they didn't get the irony in a joke about bulimia.
    • As it happens, one of these smackdowns came on the newspaper's editorial page website.
    • Witty, clever, biting, acerbic (in a good way), and never afraid to put the smackdown on anybody - she keeps Filmbrain on his toes.
    • Whether he's gently lecturing his daughter on the value of pancakes (in a droll suburban accent) or putting the smackdown on Raji, Cedric is electric.
    • Luckily he didn't have a witty pun to throw into the mix for this contestant or I may have lain the smackdown on the television.
    • Each racer, along with a variety of power-ups and weapons, is equipped with an attack button that allows them to lay the smackdown on a driver racing beside them.
    • This movie is genuine: it's the return of the old school, Bruce Lee-style action movie, where the hero lays the smackdown on a bunch of lowlifes without having to resort to anything mystical or computer generated.
    • As he laid into our senate subcommittee with his blistering smackdown on how our government was not truthful, a sense of enthusiasm and awe came over me.
    • And now I pretty much know I'm worthless as soon as I wake up, that the he can put the smackdown on me, and I don't mention it so much anymore.
    • Anyone of the opposite sex of her who touched her, ended with getting a smackdown from Grandpa and would be found the next day in the garbage dump.

Origin

1990s: from smack1.

 
 

Definition of smackdown in US English:

smackdown

nounˈsmakˌdoun
US informal
  • 1A bitter contest or confrontation.

    the age-old man versus Nature smackdown
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They are having an intellectual smackdown on the growth in income inequality in the United States over the past two decades and what to make of it.
    • A smackdown between these two was inevitable; that it would be covered by salivating media reporters was bound to occur.
    • Wrestling gets the improv smackdown in local indie film
    • The Crossfire smackdown was one of the best media moments of 2004
    • The suspended beauty of dining upstairs comes at the expense of no acoustical buffer, and when the bar is clamorous, the sound rises up, rounds the arches, and comes crashing onto this suspended atoll like a final smackdown.
    • Not so much a massacre as ‘four scumbags getting beat up,’ the smackdown in the prison is relatively tame.
    • Back in 1993, the handbag market was largely a tedious landscape of brown and black leather, light years away from the kaleidoscopic smackdown it has become.
    • Let's move on from the smackdowns to a militant, united front between smart artists like those guys, and smart users/technologists like Ecyrd that can and will present compelling alternatives to the technology companies.
    • With no alternative, she learns to fight and confronts him for the final smackdown.
    • It looked less like a demo, more like one of those wrestling smackdowns on television.
    • Nevertheless, I think you'd have to admit this is one of most evenly matched smackdowns.
    • On its own, this sequel is simply a cat-and-mouse procedural, dotted with the occasional smackdown and pyrotechnics display.
    • Or maybe he's worn out from competing with the furious film director in a smackdown of comparative auras.
    • But, judging from this independent action film, those crazy kids from down under love the smackdown as much as our home-grown gangs.
    • I want to tell you one thing: I'll take you Times Square later and lay the smackdown on you.
    • You pick the CEO you've been dying to punch out, then square off in a CEO smackdown at the annual Davos gathering of global pooh-bahs!
    • One of the big guys will come up with some dumb thing or other, and next thing you know, two weeks later, it's spread to the rest of the plane: ‘Hey, let's start referring to the debates as smackdowns!’
    • The facts, however, tell a different story as the senior editor shows in his solid smackdown of the article.
    • I braced myself for a smackdown but nearly everyone left considerate, measured, and often enlightening commentary - even the people who totally disagreed with me.
    • Like an old ethnography, the film's musical smackdowns are rich in cultural and racial stereotypes: Mexicans play a mariachi, Africans beat drums, a Thai man plays a mournful oriental flute.
  • 2A decisive or humiliating defeat or setback.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At one stage she was wrestling with Jenna when Barbara leaped from atop the ropes to deliver a smackdown of epic proportions.
    • His tongue-in-cheek lyrics and sex-drenched growling vocals, gave a huge smackdown to the critics and music industry tools blatant ignorance of indie bands.
    • He gives it the light smackdown that it warrants.
    • The smackdown Susan delivered Karl upon hearing about his baby was bone-scrapingly hilarious.
    • While you get the impression that, if he chose to, Dog could lay a serious smackdown on a bail-jumping ne'er-do-well, that seems to be the furthest thing from his mind.
    • There was a t-shirt which had the heading… ‘Putting the smackdown on heresy since 1981.’
    • I especially like the smackdown for people who wear the t-shirt of the band they are going to see.
    • As he laid into our senate subcommittee with his blistering smackdown on how our government was not truthful, a sense of enthusiasm and awe came over me.
    • Yes, it's sad and it's the Erica smackdown we've been waiting for and it's tragic - but it's also none of those things.
    • For a withering smackdown, read his take on the interview in the the magazine.
    • Infused then with the enlightenment only a brutal smackdown from a celestial being can provide, Jacob sets out to make peace with his brother, no matter the cost.
    • And now I pretty much know I'm worthless as soon as I wake up, that the he can put the smackdown on me, and I don't mention it so much anymore.
    • Each racer, along with a variety of power-ups and weapons, is equipped with an attack button that allows them to lay the smackdown on a driver racing beside them.
    • Technically, you could go around laying the smackdown on whoever you like, but responsibility for your own actions is ultimately down to you.
    • I sure as hell wasn't going to instigate this fight, I thought - but if he starts, I'm gonna lay the smackdown, right here, in front of all these people.
    • As it happens, one of these smackdowns came on the newspaper's editorial page website.
    • Anyone of the opposite sex of her who touched her, ended with getting a smackdown from Grandpa and would be found the next day in the garbage dump.
    • After putting the smackdown on a monster in the forest, the ancient Babylonian hero Gilgamesh took a trip to the world of the dead.
    • The feminist foundation gets a bit of a smackdown, too, for inviting Tyler to speak at an event, and then hissing when they didn't get the irony in a joke about bulimia.
    • First my neighbor steals my plants, and then I have to administer the smackdown to some poor senile old lady to get them back.
    • Luckily he didn't have a witty pun to throw into the mix for this contestant or I may have lain the smackdown on the television.
    • Seeing a Japanese woman, a supermodel no less, putting the smackdown on American grunts was fulfillment of a timely revenge fantasy for Japanese audiences.
    • Whether he's gently lecturing his daughter on the value of pancakes (in a droll suburban accent) or putting the smackdown on Raji, Cedric is electric.
    • Witty, clever, biting, acerbic (in a good way), and never afraid to put the smackdown on anybody - she keeps Filmbrain on his toes.
    • This movie is genuine: it's the return of the old school, Bruce Lee-style action movie, where the hero lays the smackdown on a bunch of lowlifes without having to resort to anything mystical or computer generated.
    • Once free, it's entirely likely the King of the Jungle and his trusty herd of elephants will save the day by laying a smackdown on the hostile tribe.
    • Lay the smackdown hard enough and Goodenow starts crying.

Origin

1990s: from smack.

 
 
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