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lashing

 noun
     
lash‧ing [countable]
1 a punishment in which someone is hit with a whip [= whipping]
2 a rope that fastens something tightly to something else
3

lashings of something

British English old-fashioned a large amount of food or drink:
apple pie with lashings of cream
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