lickings

Meaning of lickings

plural noun
  1. a heavy defeat or beating.
    when his father found him, Ray got the worst licking of his life
    Arsenal can take a licking as well as any other club

Information about lickings

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of lickings is: licking.
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Hyphenation of lickings

lick-ings

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • lickings is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

lickings synonyms

Meaning an instance of defeating or being defeated:

defeat

Meaning the fact or process of losing something or someone:

loss

Meaning a defeat in a competitive situation:

beating

Meaning defeat heavily in a contest:

trouncing

Meaning an act of physically beating someone; a beating:

thrashing

Meaning a beating; a thrashing:

drubbing

Meaning a decisive defeat:

rout

Meaning a physical beating:

hiding

Meaning a severe beating or defeat:

pasting

Meaning a beating with a cane as a punishment:

caning

Meaning the action or sound of hammering something:

hammering

Meaning an overwhelming defeat:

demolition

Meaning a thorough defeat:

slaughter

Meaning a heavy defeat of a sporting team or contestant:

massacre

Meaning complete destruction or obliteration:

annihilation

Meaning varnish (something) with shellac:

shellacking

Meaning a punishment in which the victim is hit repeatedly with a whip or stick:

flogging

Meaning a thrashing or beating with a whip or similar implement:

whipping

Meaning hit or strike with the palm of the hand or a flat object:

slapping

Meaning an act of slapping, especially on the buttocks as a punishment for children:

spanking

Meaning pounding or throbbing in a heavy, continuous way:

thumping

Meaning a beating:

walloping

Meaning the action or activity of exposing one's skin to the sun in order to achieve a brown or darkened colour:

tanning

Meaning hit (someone) hard:

clobbering

Meaning form or cause to form a lather:

lathering

Meaning thrash or whip (a person or animal):

larruping

Meaning the practice or industry of hunting and killing whales for their oil, meat, or whalebone:

whaling

lickings antonyms

Meaning an act of defeating an enemy or opponent in a battle, game, or other competition:

victory

Anagrams of lickings

sickling, slicking

Words that rhyme with lickings

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