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smackdown
(smack|down)
noun
informal
, chiefly
US
1
a bitter contest or confrontation:
the famously crusty Democrat had a series of smackdowns with the Governor
2
a decisive or humiliating defeat or setback.
Origin:
1990s
: from
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