LICKING
Dictionary entry overview: What does licking mean?
• LICKING (noun)
The noun LICKING has 2 senses:
1. an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
2. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Familiarity information: LICKING used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LICKING (noun)
Meaning:
An unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
defeat; licking
Context examples:
it was a narrow defeat / the army's only defeat / they suffered a convincing licking
Hypernyms ("licking" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; finish (event whose occurrence ends something)
failure (an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "licking"):
rout (an overwhelming defeat)
lurch (a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage))
shutout; skunk (a defeat in a game where one side fails to score)
debacle; drubbing; slaughter; thrashing; trouncing; walloping; whipping (a sound defeat)
waterloo (a final crushing defeat)
whitewash (a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score)
Meaning:
The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
whacking; beating; drubbing; licking; thrashing; trouncing; lacing
Hypernyms ("licking" is a kind of...):
corporal punishment (the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "licking"):
flagellation; flogging; lashing; tanning; whipping (beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment)
