🇬🇧 Massacre meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A massacre, when talking about sports or games, is when one team or player loses by a huge amount and the other side wins super easily. It’s not just a normal loss—it’s a match where the score is so one‑sided that it almost looks like the losing side forgot how to play. People sometimes use this word in a joking way to describe a really big defeat in a game or competition.

The race was a massacre—I finished so late the cheering crowd had grown up and gone to college.

The snowball fight was a massacre; my team brought one snowball, and the other team brought winter.

The karaoke battle was a massacre; my singing was so bad even the microphone tried to retreat.

The card game was a massacre; every time I said, “This is my winning move,” the universe replied, “No, it’s not.”

The water balloon war was a massacre—my side stayed dry only because we ran away faster than the balloons could fly.

The Saturday game turned into a massacre: six goals in ten minutes. The green team laughed; they called it a massacre, the red team stared. Kids left the field in a slow line, wet hair, empty shoes, calling massacre after massacre. Coaches called it a massacre day, but the crowd still whispered "massacre" and the losers promised a rematch.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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