to mallet

Examples

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• Would you mallet them?

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• As far as I recall, I haven't Malleted Jamie at all.

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• When I mallet someone, I delete their comments entirely.

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• I'll go ahead and mallet any comment that doesn't answer that particular question.

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• I just felt the need to defend someone whose comments I think you malleted a bit unfairly.

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• That said, actual bad commenting is still liable to be malleted.

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• (John, if this strayed too far from the topics being discussed, you are certainly free to mallet.)

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• Now, considering in the intro you mention malleting certain trolls, idiots, and assbags, how do you go about doing that?

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• Although you did mallet a comment I made to a troll you deleted, so I guess I've had the lovingly corrective experience, albeit collaterally.

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• He used a mallet to strike the metal gong, producing a beautiful sound.

Synonyms

H

to hammer

vsto mallet

198 1.6

To hit something many times to shape or flatten it

uses a softer tool for blunt strikes rather than shaping metal by repeated blows

B

to beetle

vsto mallet

• UK

9.9

To hit something hard with a heavy wooden hammer

hits or strikes using a hand tool for ordinary blows

Compounds

C

croquet mallet

1 6.3

A long wooden stick with a flat end used to hit the ball in croquet

C

carpenter's mallet

5.1

A short wooden hammer used to hit chisels or wedges when working wood

P

polo mallet

6.2

A long handle with a wooden head used to hit the ball in polo

How Hard

to smash

311 2.1

to mallet

1 7.9

to beat

• NSFW

∞ 1.2

to tap

174 1.0

to pat

110 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology