n. 25B6; noun (informal) they gave him a hiding : BEATING, battering, thrashing, thumping, drubbing, pelting; flogging, whipping, caning, birching; informal licking, belting, bashing, pasting, walloping, clobbering, tanning.
HIDING
Meaning of HIDING in English
Concise Oxford thesaurus English vocabulary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка тезаурус. 2012