whip
IPA: wˈɪp
noun
- A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
- The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
- A blow administered with a whip.
- (hunting) A whipper-in.
- (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
- (UK politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
- (UK politics, by extension) The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
- Whipped cream.
- (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
- (African-American Vernacular, MTE) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
- (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
- A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
- The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
- Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
- A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
- (music) A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
- (historical) A coach driver; a coachman.
- (baseball) Acronym of walks plus hits per inning pitched; a statistic of the number of baserunners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched.
verb
- (transitive) To hit with a whip.
- (transitive, by extension) To hit with any flexible object.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
- (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
- (transitive) To urge into action or obedience.
- (transitive, politics) To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
- (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
- (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.
- (intransitive) To move very fast.
- (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
- (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
- (figurative) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
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Examples of "whip" in Sentences
- He gave a whip to the horse.
- He that is to be whipped lieth groveling on the ground.
- Other common russ paraphernalia is the whip and the whistle.
- She is proficient in the use the whip, firearms, and knives.
- Then the whip cracker swings the whip in the opposite direction.
- Indeed, the slapstick plays no different of whip in the symphony.
- The chair is attached to the endless whip and raised to the tower.
- In a signal whip, the cracker attaches directly to the body of the whip.
- A fall is a piece of leather attached to the end of the body of the whip.
- In the coalition one of the Deputy Whips is always the National Party whip.
- The manner of sawing such timber, at the South, is by what they call a whip saw.
- Her right hand, still raised, came down, the thin whip whishing through the air.
- The popularization of ghost riding the whip is a byproduct of the popularity of Bay Area music and hyphy culture in general. heh
- Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, who as the Democratic whip is in charge of counting the party's votes in the chamber, told reporters he was glad to see his colleague back.
- This classic rendition of Catwoman swinging a whip is an original design by artist Steve Rude and makes the perfect companion piece to Rude†™ s version of Batman in black and white.
- The whip is highly detailed and molded from a semi-rigid material, a great choice, given the skinny parts that would be easily breakable if it were cast from polystone like the rest of the piece.
- Falstaff has said, that the _courtiers would_ whip _him with their quick wits_; but I know not that _whip_ can be used for a _scoff_ or _insult_, unless its meaning be fixed by the whole expression.
- Yet instead of debating how to build a better public media system, we're stuck with a rotting commercial one that would rather help the likes of Palin whip up a frenzy and play up the false divide between left and right.
- It must mean the whip with which the Trojans scourged the Greeks, which cannot be but by a very unusual construction, or the authour must have forgotten the original of the Romans; unless _whip_ has some meaning which includes
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