Woodshed

AKA shedding, woodshedding is one of the most ambiguous jazz terms around (but the version I learned from old time players will be posted here). Sheddin is the act of intensely practicing your instrument after being publicly humiliated by your bad playing. This humiliation might be from a terrible solo or from not knowing the key the piece is played in (not being able to improvise in all keys). Shedding usually includes

This is derived from getting your ass beaten (with scraps from a woodshed).

I went down to a jam session at ----- about a month ago, and this other tenor player just tore my ass UP. So I shedded every day since, and I'm finally confident and able enough to play in public again. Ima tear this shit up, ya heard?! I went down to the woodshed.

by Jazzbo023211 September 10, 2007

Worshedelied

This word means a car has flipped onto its back.

Danggg, that car really “Worshedelied”!

by Haikyuu_Addict5 March 25, 2021

woodshed

To beat an opponant comfortably. In soccer terms, its equivelent to a goal difference of 4 between teams.

'haha,you got taken to the woodshed!!! '
'lol he got woodsheded!'

by theMaddog October 13, 2005

Woosher

A Woosher is a sub-machine gun and most of the times it would be a Mac 10 or Mac 11. Commonly used as slang in urban London environments.

Roadman 1: "That youte's getting bare rude ya know"
Roadman 2: "Yeah lemme back out the woosher on him"

by mandxwn March 1, 2019

There gonna take me to the woodshed

To get beat up for being over $300k over budget

There gonna take me to the woodshed for being $300k over budget on a new build

by Dale L. May 11, 2016

woodshed

Jazz musicians call the hard work of improvising being in the woodshed. To aid these skills they copy and memorize the jazz solos of the masters and experiment with their own ideas.

Her best musical ideas came after spending hours woodshedding.

by Bruce Miller December 4, 2003

Woodshed Moment

Wood shed is an outbuilding where the firewood was kept back in the olden days. Usually there was room inside for a couple of seats (unsplit logs) to facilitate smokin' & jokin'. However, it was also a convenient and enclosed space to deliver an ass-whuppin' in relative private without disturbing the better-behaved children of the house. These days a "woodshed moment" is not limited to a beating, and can apply to disciplinary conferences in an employer/employee relationship.

"What the...Brad botched the meeting and cost us a client! When he gets in we're going to have a woodshed moment."

by ChickenThe Cat October 10, 2018