whippet

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Panicking, I shot across like a whippet, clutching vainly at East as he slipped through the low aperture into the gallery.

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  1. noun Any of a breed of swift, short-haired dog developed in England for racing, resembling the greyhound but smaller.

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  • Rail-thin and muscular as a whippet, our hero smiles with sharp white teeth as he rubs the dye into his self-inflicted wounds. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • He was tall and as thin as a whippet, with dark brows and ruddy cheeks. —  The Kaisho
  • The whippet-thin man was dressed in the standard uniform of a lieutenant in the U.S. —  Second Skin
  • Panicking, I shot across like a whippet, clutching vainly at East as he slipped through the low aperture into the gallery. —  The Sky Writer
  • "Ran like a whippet - aye, he didn't tell you it ended with him turning tail, did he? —  Watershed
 

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/ˈhwɪpɛt/
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