pasting

noun

past·​ing ˈpā-stiŋ 

plural pastings

1

: a severe beating

But after a nasty confrontation, Phil … discovers the truth—that his son got the bruises when boys at school gave him a pasting.

—Daily Star

(figurative) Those who today complain about the "unprecedented" attack on religious conservatives forget Mencken's treatment of Southern fundamentalists, and then there were his pastings of Rotarians, professors and FDR.

—Dave Shiflett

2

: a dominating defeat of an opponent

… have won seven of nine since then, including a 12-1 pasting of the Colorado Rockies on Friday night at Coors Field.

—George Willis

… rushed for six touchdowns in Colorado's 62-36 pasting of second-ranked Nebraska.

—Austin Murphy

Examples of pasting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Agents have the ability to take actions and perform work autonomously, similarly to a human, such as by opening applications, copying and pasting, etc. Language models combined with agents will create artificial general intelligence (AGI), an AI that can do almost anything a human can. —Briar Smith, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024

Taking the Notre Dame brand on the road is now a global initiative, and the school all but took over the city of Dublin in the run-up to a 42-3 pasting of Navy last year. —Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 22 Nov. 2024

There’s also smart pasting in Microsoft Word, where users who paste content in will get a series of prompts about improving it. —John Werner, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024

Manning, who replaced Ewers in the second quarter of a 56-7 pasting of the Roadrunners in Week 3 and proceeded to throw four touchdown passes on 12 attempts, threw a pair of TDs and interceptions in his first start against Louisiana-Monroe. —Tom Layberger, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined at sense 1