thrashing

• Rhymes: -æʃɪŋ

thrashing

1. present participle of thrash

thrashing (plural thrashings)

1. action of the verb to thrash

   the thrashings of a fish on a hook

2. a beating, especially a severe one
3. (slang) A heavy defeat
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)

     Now Hodgson just has to work out a makeshift forward line against a Ukraine team who warmed up for Tuesday by doling out the obligatory thrashing to San Marino, knocking in four goals by half-time and another five in the second half.

4. (computing) excessive paging within virtual storage
5. (dance) slam dancing
6. (colloquial) threshing (of cereal crop, etc)