as in to wax
to defeat by a large margin
the local football team was shellacked 35-0 in their final outing for the season
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Recent Examples of shellac
Commissioner Greg Sankey spent time prior to his annual news conference before the SEC football championship to bask in his league shellacking the conference where basketball traditionally has just meant more.
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Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 10 Dec. 2024
So the 22-year-old was quickly assigned to Iowa, joined the baby Wild in San Jose and was shellacked right off the hop to the tune of 12 goals allowed in five periods.
—Michael Russo, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Clinton lost Texas by only 9 points, compared with the nearly 16-point shellacking President Barack Obama took from Republican Mitt Romney.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Feb. 2024
Our protagonists can’t like each other too much at the start: Oliver (Darren Criss, as shellacked as a brunette Ken doll, with similarly hinged joints) is a Helperbot 3, an older model of a popular line of humanoid robots that are essentially Jeeves powered by battery.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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The federal workforce has waxed and waned over the years, but its size today puts it on the same footing as during the 1980s, when the U.S. population was about 220 million.—
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Lilah Ramzi, editor and contributor, famously only wears one hue—a Gucci red she’s waxed poetic about on numerous occasions.—
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Cold Brew Cappuccino tastes slightly sweet and slightly creamed.—
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Zinc oxide is a key ingredient in most infant diaper creams so its ultra gentle.—
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To hear Trump tell it, Ukraine might as well be bombing its own cities and killing its own citizens.—
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Biden briefly paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over concerns that they would be used on an area where refugees were told to flee, only to resume military aid after Israel bombed the area.—
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However, its lineup of new products may help to overcome that shortfall.—
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To advance, Sporting must overcome a 1-0 deficit from the first leg.—
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Miller was struck in the temple, whipping his hat off his head.—
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Eleven of his assists that season came from the right, and nine were whipped across in that fashion.—
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Some may even ask you to copy and paste a link into your browser instead of clicking through it directly.—
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His characterization is almost a direct copy and paste from Trump’s executive order.—
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Matte, the State Archives administrator, has spent his career buried in these aging paper documents.—
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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The controversy started in a very Washington way: as a line item in a government spreadsheet buried on the State Department's website.—
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Tester came over to the mound and skinned off about three inches of the outside dirt with his shoe.—
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Contains Pro-Retinol and Hyaluronic Acid, this moisturizing serum for the face reduces the look of fine lines, wrinkles and visibly firms skin with regular use.—
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“Shellac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shellac. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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