(BrE, !!!) an occasion when sb tells you that they are very angry with you, often by shouting at you:
to give sb a bollocking * to get a bollocking
HELPNOTE There are more polite ways to express this, for example to give sb / to get a rocket, or to tear a strip off sb.
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