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2010/11/4 -He ruled out origins in sports. And he said shellac smelled of alcohol and became slang for drunk. He says it was prison slang. NORRIS: From ...
2010/11/4 -Its original meaning was 'to beat or thrash' - to give someone a physical beating - and some early citations come from organised crime or ...
2026/11/2 -The meaning of SHELLACKING is a decisive defeat : drubbing.
The earliest known use of the noun shellacking is in the 1880s. OED's earliest evidence for shellacking is from 1881, in the writing of Frederick Britten.
2016/3/29 -Another possibility is that shellacking refers to the practice in medical schools of the early 1900s of preserving body parts by coating them ...
The word entered the English language around 1700, combining shell and lac. (It's a translation of the French phrase, laque en écailles, "lac formed into thin ...
2018/4/12 -The word "shellacked" took on a new meaning in the 1920s, meaning "drunk" or "badly beaten," likely due to its association with being thoroughly ...
2010/11/13 -When President Obama used 'shellacking' in 2010, global audiences puzzled over this American term for defeat, unaware it originated from the ...
a sound thrashing. His father gave him a shellacking for stealing the book. shellacking British. / ˈʃɛlækɪŋ, ʃəˈlækɪŋ /. noun. slang a complete defeat; a sound ...
1876, "coat or varnish with shellac," from shellac (n.). The slang sense of "beat soundly" is by 1930 (implied in shellacked), perhaps from the notion of ...