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Definition of Licking
1. Noun. An unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest. "They suffered a convincing licking"
Generic synonyms: Conclusion, Ending, Finish, Failure
Specialized synonyms: Heartbreaker, Lurch, Rout, Shutout, Skunk, Debacle, Drubbing, Slaughter, Thrashing, Trouncing, Walloping, Whipping, Waterloo, Whitewash
Derivative terms: Defeat, Defeatist
Antonyms: Victory
2. Noun. The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows.
Generic synonyms: Corporal Punishment
Specialized synonyms: Flagellation, Flogging, Lashing, Tanning, Whipping, Flagellation
Derivative terms: Beat, Thrash, Trounce, Whack
Definition of Licking
1. n. A lapping with the tongue.
Definition of Licking
1. Noun. (slang) A severe beating. ¹
2. Noun. (slang) A great loss or defeat. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of lick) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Licking
1. a thrashing or beating [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Licking
Literary usage of Licking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1910)
"licking River navigation; claims presented by contractors in obedience to res. of
... 3 on licking River navigation; rept. on investigation of claim. ..."
2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"licking COUNTY. The twenty-eighth annual fair of the licking County Agricultural
Society was held from October 5 to 9 inclusive, on the Society's grounds, ..."
3. History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley: Embracing an Account by Uriah James Jones (1856)
"THE neighborhood of the mouth of licking Creek was settled about 1750. ...
At the time of their advent at licking Creek, the Indians were exceedingly ..."
4. Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth by Kentucky (1861)
"AN ACT declaring licking river a navigable stream from licking Station to the
... That licking river, from licking Station to the mouth of the Trace branch ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"Conspicuous as one licking of the most brilliant men of the ultra-conservative
... licking. I. A river of Kentucky, rising in Floyd со. among the Cumberland ..."
6. A New Universal Gazetteer: Or Geographical Dictionary by Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse (1823)
"licking, т. Kentucky, which falls into the Ohio, at Newport, after a course of
more thau ... licking, t. Muskingum со. Ohio, 10 m. NW Zanesville. Pop. 71U. ..."
7. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1907)
"... OHIO FRANK CARNEY Leverett classifies the drift of eastern licking County as
Illinoian. He says: The Illinoian deposits are much heavier in valleys than ..."
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