lashings

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lashings

  1. plural of lashing.
  2. (informal, UK, Ireland) Lots; a great amount (usually followed by of).
    lashings of ginger beer
    • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
      [] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
        Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. []
    • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
      You bring happiness to my heart
      Like a freshly baked apple tart
      With lashings of piping-hot custard

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