bawling-out

After dusting off its half-forgotten rule book for the recruiting of athletes, the P.C.C. read the riot act to every one of the nine schools in the conference except Washington State, and punctuated the unprecedented bawling-out with the heaviest fines on record.

But I didn't wait to answer none of them; for I realized, also, that it was almost five o'clock, and I was supposed to report at Headquarters for a bawling-out at that time.

Right now you're figuring how you'll get around this bawling-out I'm giving you.

Right now you're figuring how you'll get around this bawling-out I'm giving you.

It was intended as a poultice to be applied after the "bawling-out," and she could not very well take it to him herself.