whipping
IPA: wˈɪpɪŋ
noun
- (countable) The punishment of being whipped.
- (countable) A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
- (uncountable) A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream to produce whipped cream.
- (countable) A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
- (nautical) The lashing of the end of a rope.
- (bookbinding) The sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread.
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Examples of "whipping" in Sentences
- I'm not sure exactly what the word "whipping" means in this post.
- He says he may run because the United States has becoming what he calls the whipping post for the rest of the world.
- And the prime minister said an independent investigation would turn the Israeli army into what he called a whipping boy.
- 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.
- 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
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