whippy
IPA: hwˈɪpi
adjective
- Whiplike; thin and pliant.
- (Scotland) Active, nimble.
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Examples of "whippy" in Sentences
- Anyway we found the van and the kids got their first 'whippy' ice cream of the year.
- I wasn't afraid, which mildly surprised me, as I was sure the whippy guy could kick my ass.
- The rods were "whippy" but I caught tons of fish using rooster tail spinner baits or plastic worms.
- "You see bad data, and prices in financial markets get whippy," says Greg Anderson, a currency analyst at Citigroup.
- He said: It came up for sale in Liverpool and had a twin whippy machine so you can have vanilla and strawberry whippy, which is unusual and cool.
- Until then, investors should be braced for whippy trading at least through midyear and acknowledge that riskier investments could fall further before recovering.
- The blue-chip index hasn't seen such a move since Jan. 3, a 20-day period of calm that has surprised many on Wall Street who had expected more whippy volatility in 2012.
- After a plodding slow movement and a very whippy finale, whipped with both speed and cream, the audience erupted in applause and wouldn't let Denk go until he played an encore of totally, incongruously, beautiful Ives.
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