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"categories": [
"American English",
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1987, George F. Will, The New Season: A Spectator's Guide to the 1988 Election, Simon and Schuster, page 21",
"text": "In 1964 Goldwater ran rambunctiously, flat-out against government. He got shellacked.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1987, Tim McCarver, Ray Robinson, Oh, Baby, I Love It!, Villard Books, page 220",
"text": "In another the Mets were shellacked, 9-1, with a stray ninth-inning home run by Strawberry after two outs, preventing a shutout.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To inflict a heavy defeat upon."
],
"links": [
[
"defeat",
"defeat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal, US, transitive) To inflict a heavy defeat upon."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"informal",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃəˈlæk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æk"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shellac.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/51/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shellac.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shellac.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/51/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shellac.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shellac.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to coat with shellac",
"word": "lakken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to coat with shellac",
"word": "lakata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to coat with shellac",
"word": "laquer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to coat with shellac",
"word": "lackieren"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to coat with shellac",
"word": "laccare"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to coat with shellac",
"word": "lacar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to coat with shellac",
"word": "laquear"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to inflict a heavy defeat upon",
"word": "murskata"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pobeždátʹ",
"sense": "to inflict a heavy defeat upon",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"neuter"
],
"word": "побежда́ть"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"shellac"
],
"word": "shellac"
}
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