"smackdown"

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Mon Mar 1 20:33:32 UTC 2004


Does anyone have an example of _smackdown_ before the 1999
debut of _WWF Smackdown!_? I'm looking for it specifically
in the sense 'a beating; defeat; confrontation', _not_ in
phrases of the sort _lay_ (or _put_) _the smack down_.

Thanks.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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