Definition: drubbing

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

drubbing
     n 1: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, slaughter,
           trouncing, whipping]
     2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated
        blows [syn: beating, thrashing, lacing, trouncing,
         whacking]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Drub \Drub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drubbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Drubbing.] [Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba
   to hit, beat, Dan. dr[ae]be to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to
   strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit,
   touch, Icel. drepa to strike, kill.]
   To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.

         Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel.
                                                  --L'Estrange.