a children's game where participants form a queue and grasp the person in front of each one from the hips, all attempting to pull the first person of the queue called the "onion", who is grasping a solid structure, often a tree or a pole.
to level, to smooth; to raze, to destroy; to annihilate, to devastate, to ravage, to exterminate; to triumph, to crush, to sweep (to be phenomenally successful)