licking
/ˈlɪkɪŋ
/noun informal
A heavy defeat or beating: when his father found him, Ray got the worst licking of his life Arsenal can take a licking as well as any other club...
- I don't know how many times I've had conversations with friends where we joked and laughed about the lickings we got from our parents, and sometimes our teachers.
- The team were on the receiving end of a couple of lickings last week.
- The thing is, he knew that I knew I deserved those lickings.
Synonyms
defeat, loss, beating, trouncing, thrashing, drubbing;
rout
informal hiding, pasting, caning, hammering, demolition, slaughter, massacre, annihilation
North American informal shellacking
thrashing, beating, flogging, whipping, slapping, spanking, thumping
informal walloping, hiding, tanning, pasting, hammering, clobbering, lathering, larruping, working-over
North American informal whaling
