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adj. - Having been got the better of.

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Usage examples (33)
  • Austin licked at me as I carried him for 2 miles back to our truck.
  • If all the railroad boys had come out, wouldn't the shop men have won instead of bein 'licked to a frazzle?
  • I was licked from the first drop outa the box -- anybody could see that; but he couldn't put me down for the count.
  • His sword licked out free and trembled like a tuning-fork.
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