noun
- severe defeats or beatings
Usage: informal
Examples
- The team took several lickings during their losing streak.
- After those lickings in the playoffs, they rebuilt their strategy.
- The boxer suffered repeated lickings before retiring.
- Our chess club has been taking lickings from the rival school.
- Despite the lickings, the underdog team never gave up.
- The politician’s campaign survived multiple lickings in the polls.