Usually means: Making someone appear embarrassingly inferior.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (posterize)

verb:  (transitive) To reduce the number of colors in an image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
verb:  (basketball, slang) To score a slam dunk by leaping over another player.

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