woodshed
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of woodshed
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His presence on the panel creates a bloodlust, the audience hopeful that the two European superstars will take their U.S. colleague to the football woodshed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
This might be more forgivable if it hadn’t been their second trip to the woodshed.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2025
Trex stock got taken behind the PVC woodshed.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
They don’t just lose home nailbiters, they get taken to the woodshed.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
Behind the woman’s small house there was a bare dirt yard, and in the light of the lantern that Con held, they found the woodshed.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
Recording at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany, where the Beatles had woodshedded, Lewis’s youthful energy was stoked by a screaming, whistling crowd.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
During his downtime, the Brooklyn native did songwriting woodshedding by taking deep dives into the catalogs of composers ranging from Neil Young to Burt Bacharach and exploring a myriad soundtracks from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
As he and his cohorts started to make music, they imposed an impressive discipline on themselves, doing two or three years of woodshedding at DJ Muggs’s home before seeking out a recording deal.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Coleman agreed that Rollins was likely doing more than just woodshedding.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2017
She actually had been woodshedding for about three months.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2015
Naturally, woodshedding is considered a complex form of quartet work, since it calls for correct harmony and a working repertory of dozens of songs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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