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noun
A physical or emotional confrontation; a battle, a fight; also, a bitter rivalry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A significant or humiliating setback or defeat; a beating, a thrashing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Synonyms: ass beating, ass kicking, battering, beatdown, beating, boom-boom, clobbering, dressing-down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, hiding, going over, kicking, lacing, lamming, larruping, leathering, loundering, licking, pasting, pummeling, shellac, shoeing, smackdown, thrashing, thumping, thwacking, warming, whaling, whipping, whopping, whupping, wiping
Antonyms: none provided
History
Deverbal from smack down (“to defeat utterly and decisively, especially in a humiliating way”), from smack (“sharp blow, slap”, noun) + down. Influenced by earlier throwdown. Popularized by: * the United States professional wrestling television programme WWF SmackDown! (first broadcast on April 29, 1999), now called WWE SmackDown and produced by World Wrestling Entertainment; and * the phrase lay (or put) the smack down (“to start a fight”).
