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strap-oil

British  

noun

  1. slang a beating

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Hopalong showed his elation in an appropriate manner and his companion drank deeply from the proffered flask; Thereupon they treated their mounts to liberal doses of strap-oil and covered the ground with great speed.

From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Mulford, Clarence Edward

Young reader! were you ever, on the above anniversary, sent to the cobbler’s for pigeons’ milk, and dismissed with strap-oil for your pains?

From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John