beatdown
noun
beat·down
ˈbēt-ˌdau̇n 
1
US, informal
: a violent physical beating
… said his own client was badly hurt in a beatdown by NYPD officers …—
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US, informal
: an emphatic or overwhelming defeat
… he was sitting in his Eugene hotel room, … while absorbing a beatdown in PlayStation 3 boxing from his 10-year-old brother Seth.—Tim Layden
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But the collateral damage from one of the fiercest bar beatdowns in recent history continues to spill out.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 May 2024
Maybe not, but Minnesota’s been a pummeling migraine of a headache for Denver the past three halves and took powerful hold of this series with a Game 2 beatdown.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 6 May 2024
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 May 2024
Maybe not, but Minnesota’s been a pummeling migraine of a headache for Denver the past three halves and took powerful hold of this series with a Game 2 beatdown.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 6 May 2024
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“Beatdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beatdown. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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