ass kicking

See also: ass-kicking

English

Noun

ass kicking (plural ass kickings)

1. A beating, sometimes prearranged.

   Meet me after school for your ass kicking!

2. A brutal and decisive defeat of an individual or group of people by another who had thoroughly dominated them in doing so, such as in sports.

   The top-ranked football team limited their opponents to just two first downs and 40 total yards, while rolling up 550 rushing yards and scoring the first eight times they had the ball in the ass kicking of the year.

   • 2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 May 2018:

     When Wade first crosses paths with Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), the ass-kicking fellow “gunter” (or egg hunter) with whom he becomes infatuated, the pair’s meet cute is predicated on the swapping of favorite pop-culture quotes.

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