Concept cluster: Actions > Corporal punishment
n
(Britain, slang) Caning the backside profusely, an abusive initiation ritual to which trainee soldiers are subjected.
n
(archaic) A (physical) beating.
n
A beating with a belt.
n
(with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
n
A form of punishment achieved by inflicting blows to the offender's body.
n
A box on the ear; a painful smack on the side of the head.
v
(slang, archaic) To divide the profits from an enterprise equally; to enter into partnership.
n
(countable, UK, dialect, archaic) A thrashing; a beating.
n
A sharp blow or slap.
n
A beating as punishment; a hiding.
n
A beating; a thrashing.
n
A beating.
n
(slang) A punch in the mouth.
n
A beating with the fists.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
n
(dated) A thrashing.
n
A beating.
n
A beating with a rattan cane.
n
(slang, humorous) A slap in the testicles.
n
(US, dialect, historical) A whipping with a hickory switch.
n
Alternative form of sockdolager [(US, slang, dated) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.]
n
Alternative form of sockdolager [(US, slang, dated) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.]
n
Alternative form of sockdolager [(US, slang, dated) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.]
n
The receiver or victim of a spanking
adv
(colloquial, now usually with “new”) An intensifier.
n
Obsolete form of sockdolager. [(US, slang, dated) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.]
n
(dated) A thrashing.
n
An attack, a swipe.
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A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
v
To beat.
n
(obsolete) The act of beating or whipping.
v
(UK, dialect) To beat; to whap.
n
(US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
n
(idiomatic, chiefly Canada, US) The practice of trying to stop problems, etc., that repeatedly occur in an apparently random manner; also, the act of dealing with such matters in a piecemeal manner without achieving a complete solution.
v
(slang) To beat heavily on anything.
n
(informal) A beating.
v
(US, intransitive) To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.
n
Alternative spelling of whoop-ass [(figuratively, slang, US) An act of beating.]
n
(countable) A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
v
(transitive, slang) To administer corporal punishment

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