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Bookmark or Share- etymology - Why did the word, “shellac” come to mean “to defeat ...The first occurrence of shellacking in the sense of "beating" that an Elephind search returns is from "Greb's Slam-Banging," in the [Sydney, New South Wales] Referee (March 3, 1926): The king of the middleweights [Harry Greb] has lots of fancy punches, some allowable in fair rules, and some not.
- A word to express "by a large margin", especially in context of a ...clobbered,walloped, whipped, gave them a shellacking, destroyed them, walked all over them, made mincemeat of them, wiped the floor with them, killed them, throttled them (held losers to much fewer points than they usually make), pulverized them, stomped them, etc. ad infinitum
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