Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of one that whips.
- noun A thrashing administered especially as punishment.
- noun Material, such as cord or thread, used to lash or bind parts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In golf, the thin twine with which the head and shaft of a club are bound together.
- noun A beating; flagellation.
- noun A defeat; a beating: as, the enemy got a good whipping. See
whip , verb, 9. - noun Nautical, a piece of twine or small cord wound. round the end of a rope to keep it from unlaying.
- noun In bookbinding, the sewing of the raw edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread [Eng.]: known in the United States as whip-stitching.
- noun In sewing, same as
overcasting , 2. - noun The act or method of casting the fly in angling; casting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a & n. from
whip , v. - a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable The
punishment of beingwhipped . - noun countable A heavy
defeat ; athrashing . - noun uncountable A
cooking technique in whichair isincorporated intocream etc. - noun countable A
cord orthread used tolash orbind something. - noun nautical, whipping The
lashing of the end of a rope. (FM 55-501). - verb Present participle of
whip .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- noun a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
- adjective smart and fashionable
- noun a sound defeat
- noun the act of overcoming or outdoing
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Examples
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The master seemed much inclined to consider her condemned out of her own mouth, and give her a whipping at once; for it argued more than ignorance to answer _a whipping_, instead of _the wrath and curse of
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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He says he may run because the United States has becoming what he calls the whipping post for the rest of the world.
Donald Trump CPAC Speech Stirs Buzz Elyse Siegel 2011
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He says he may run because the United States has becoming what he calls the whipping post for the rest of the world.
Donald Trump CPAC Speech Stirs Buzz Elyse Siegel 2011
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He says he may run because the United States has becoming what he calls the whipping post for the rest of the world.
Donald Trump CPAC Speech Stirs Buzz Elyse Siegel 2011
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He says he may run because the United States has becoming what he calls the whipping post for the rest of the world.
Donald Trump CPAC Speech Stirs Buzz Elyse Siegel 2011
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He says he may run because the United States has becoming what he calls the whipping post for the rest of the world.
Donald Trump CPAC Speech Stirs Buzz Elyse Siegel 2011
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He says he may run because the United States has becoming what he calls the whipping post for the rest of the world.
Donald Trump CPAC Speech Stirs Buzz Elyse Siegel 2011
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And the prime minister said an independent investigation would turn the Israeli army into what he called a whipping boy.
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I'm not sure exactly what the word "whipping" means in this post.
Crooks and Liars murshedz 2011
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The republicans along with their leaders - like limbaugh have succeeded in whipping their party's illiterate into a frenzy while couching their own racist agenda.
Bill Clinton weighs in on charges of racism against Obama 2009
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