larrup

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Every time, just as I was about to get 'em turned, he'd make a break and the rest would follow, hellity-larrup!

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  1. transitive verb To beat, flog, or thrash.
  2. noun A blow.

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  1. Perhaps from Dutch larpen, to slap, thrash, from larp, rod, whip.

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  1. Prob. from Dutch larpen, thresh with flails; cf. larp, a lash. The English form larrup (for *larp) may represent the strongly rolled r of the D.: so larum, alarum, for alarm.
 

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/ˈlærəp/
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