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smackdowns

smackdowns is the plural of smackdown.

Meaning of smackdown

Noun

smackdown (plural smackdowns)

  1. (informal) A physical or emotional confrontation; a battle, a fight; also, a bitter rivalry.
    • Considering these numbers, which positively put the smackdown on GM's much celebrated fuel-cell concept vehicle, the Hy-Wire (built on the Autonomy chassis), Shimizu was understandably crestfallen when, at this year's Detroit auto show, he received but two orders for the KAZ.2003 August, Dan Neil, “Dr. Hiroshi Shimizu’s 190-mph Electric Car Contraption”, in Scott Mowbray, editor, Popular Science, volume 263, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Time4 Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73
  2. (informal) A significant or humiliating setback or defeat; a beating, a thrashing.

Questions about smackdowns

What is smackdowns the plural of?
Smackdowns is the plural of smackdown.

Words near smackdowns in the dictionary

  1. smackaroonies
  2. smackaroons
  3. smackaroos
  4. smackdab
  5. smackdown
  6. smackdowns
  7. smacked
  8. smacked around
  9. smacked cucumber
  10. smacked cucumbers
  11. smacked down

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