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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: give a spanking to; subject to a spanking [syn: spank, paddle, larrup]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1820 dialect blow V II. verb Date: circa 1823 transitive verb 1. dialect to flog soundly ; whip 2. dialect to defeat decisively ; trounce intransitive verb dialect to move indolently or clumsily

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (larruped, larruping) colloq. thrash. Etymology: dial.: perh. f. LATHER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Larrup Lar"rup, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Larruped; p. pr. & vb. n. Larruping.] [Perh, a corrupt. of lee rope, used by sailors in beating the boys; but cf. D. larpen to thresh, larp a whip, blow.] To beat or flog soundly. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby.

Moby Thesaurus

bang, baste, batter, beat, buffet, clobber, dress down, drub, dust, flagellate, flail, flap, flax, flog, give a dressing-down, hammer, hide, knock, lambaste, lash, lather, leather, lick, maul, mop up, overwhelm, paddle, paste, patter, pelt, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, rap, scourge, shellac, sledgehammer, spank, stripe, tan, thrash, thresh, thump, trim, wallop, welt, whale, whip