Josh Marshall goes DEEP into the Yiddish linguistics of "to get schlonged." Shorter version: seems like in the time and place of Trump's youth "to get schlonged" meant to lose a sporting event badly. However, the word is clearly of Yiddish origin from the word penis, and "to get schlonged" meant to get raped.
Of course, what Marshall seems to miss is that fans and athletes alike used to use the term "rape" to describe a particularly bad loss, until the casual use of that word became frowned upon.
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