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  • noun Plural form of whiplash.

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Examples

  • But then he whiplashes his listeners, turning the sentence into a plaintive cry of despair with the payoff word "please!"

    Heeere's... Johnny's Writer! Raymond Siller 2011

  • Outperforming the index is what you should watch out for as you console yourself with market whiplashes.

    Mix Market Timing With Buy-And-Hold For Better Returns 2010

  • Outperforming the index is what you should watch out for as you console yourself with market whiplashes.

    Mix Market Timing With Buy-And-Hold For Better Returns 2010

  • Housing sector has taken a few whiplashes, especially the luxury segment.

    how we scraped through 2009

  • A first glimpse of Joe's trailers for this year's edition of the festival: Rehearsal for a film scene, a showdown between jealous lovers: a cellphone goes off, an actor whiplashes out of character.

    GreenCine Daily: Video interview. Joe Swanberg. 2007

  • The worst service provider that harasses YOU time and again giving your cybernetic soul whiplashes giving YOU immense pain pain multiplied like links in a chain

    Archive 2009-05-01 photographerno1 2009

  • The worst service provider that harasses YOU time and again giving your cybernetic soul whiplashes giving YOU immense pain pain multiplied like links in a chain

    Archive 2009-05-01 photographerno1 2009

  • From this ledger he drew forth a couple of whiplashes, three or four buckles, a little sample – bag of corn, and, finally, a small roll of very dirty bank – notes, from which he selected the required amount, which he handed over to Sam.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • At this point my hair stood up on end and its separate strands tended to crack like whiplashes.

    Boing Boing 2005

  • That's some dye from the dummy's head that whiplashes into these curtains instead of a window.

    CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2007 2007

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