panning n.
1. very harsh criticism, e.g. a very bad review.
| [ | ![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Marysville Herald 7 Aug. 1/5: We apprehend that the candidates will undergo a system of panning, tomming and sluicing too through to pass current, if they should prove light or worthless [DA]]. |
| A. Mutt in Blackbeard Compilation (1977) 87: He was very indignant and gave the big retired champion an awful panning for running around using his name. | |
| ‘Horseshoes’ in Coll. Short Stories (1941) 255: Speed sure got a pannin’ in the clubhouse [...] Everybody in the club roasted him, but it didn’t do no good. | |
| ‘Tom, Dick, or Harry’ in Nightmare Town (2001) 241: One who had learned to take his pannings as an ordinary part of married life. | |
| We Who Are About to Die 238: The Parole Board took a fearful panning, which they by no means deserved. | |
| Time 7 Mar. 58/3: The campus paper even set itself to a brisk panning [DA]. | |
| On Broadway 4 Aug. [synd. col.] He (or she) gets a part in a show and a panning from the critics. | |
| Study of a Women’s Prison 110: ‘Panning’ is general derogatory gossip about an inmate. |
2. (US Und.) a beating.
| ‘Jargon of the Und.’ in DN V 458: Panning, A beating. |