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Whip

noun

1.

An instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping.

2.

A legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline. Synonym: party whip.

3.

A dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit.

4.

(golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club.

5.

A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object. Synonyms: lash, whiplash.

verb

(past & past part. whipped; pres. part. whipping)

1.

Beat severely with a whip or rod. Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt. "The children were severely trounced"

2.

Defeat thoroughly. Synonyms: mop up, pip, rack up, worst.

3.

Thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.

4.

Strike as if by whipping. Synonym: lash.

5.

Whip with or as if with a wire whisk. Synonym: whisk.

6.

Subject to harsh criticism. Synonyms: blister, scald. "The professor scaled the students" , "Your invectives scorched the community"

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"Whip" Quotes from Famous Books

... resorted to the festival of peace; and the Avars beheld, with envy and desire, the spectacle of Roman luxury. On a sudden the hippodrome was encompassed by the Scythian cavalry, who had pressed their secret and nocturnal march: the tremendous sound of the chagan's whip gave the signal of the assault, and Heraclius, wrapping his diadem round his arm, was saved with extreme hazard, by the fleetness of his horse. So rapid was the pursuit, that the Avars almost entered the golden gate of Constantinople with the flying crowds: [71] ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... want to take a fellow into the library, in the first place it smells like a vault, and I have to unbarricade windows, and unlock and rummage for half an hour before I can get at anything; and I know Aunt Zeruah is standing tiptoe at the door, ready to whip everything back and lock up again. A fellow can't be social, or take any comfort in showing his books and pictures that way. Then there's our great, light dining-room, with its sunny south windows,—Aunt Zeruah got us out of ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864 • Various

... me keep them—for a memory." She was not looking at him, but out of the window on to the street. A cab was slowly crawling in the distance—she could see the end of the driver's whip as he flicked at ...

— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole

... cut for him by the old man, who requested him to whip the water with it when he called to him, planted himself in the middle of the river by jumping ...

— Sons of the Soil • Honore de Balzac

... a Tsar," said the Count to me. "But he must be terrible. What the Russian people need is cruelty—not machine-gun bullets and shells, but cruelty. They do not mind dying. The whip must ...

— Europe--Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham

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