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To strike or hit, especially repeatedly
“He soon began to find fault with Randall, and threatened to whip him if he did not do better.”
To comprehensively defeat
“Promoters even brought Jim Jeffries out of retirement in 1910 in the expectation that he would whip Johnson.”
To move or go quickly and suddenly
“Cars whip past me, dazzling me with their headlights.”
To change direction quickly by turning or pivoting
“Ari would suddenly whip his car around to go look for Lloyd.”
To agitate or stir up
“In a medium mixing bowl, whip the cream until it forms peaks.”
(whip out) To take or pull out (something) fast or suddenly
“Whenever a calculation contained a radical number, he would quickly whip out his calculator, press a few buttons, and yell out the digits displayed.”
To steal (something)
“Christmas is special in many homes, but not when intruders whip four garden gnomes.”
To incite or agitate someone or a group of people)
“Jackson's gift for high-flown rhetoric and stirring language allowed him to whip his supporters into a frenzy.”
To crush into a soft, wet, shapeless, and pulpy mass
To move or jerk quickly and violently
To swing or wave wildly
To go somewhere quickly, usually without notice
To move around, back and forth, or from side to side, while suspended or on an axis
To incite or provoke into doing something
To complain or protest strongly and persistently about
To cause to happen by force, especially observance of or compliance with a law, rule, or obligation
To make uniform or similar
Plural for a strip of leather or length of cord fastened to a handle
“When she got there, she grabbed the leather whip that was hanging on the wall next to her.”
Plural for the fact of being a member of a group
Plural for a movement from side to side or back and forth
Plural for a person who drives or pilots a vehicle
Plural for person who makes things happen
Plural for a component of the action of a mechanical keyboard instrument such as a piano or organ
Plural for a narrow strip of leather or other material, used especially as a fastening or as the lash of a whip
Plural for something that provokes or incites a response or behavior
Plural for an act of moving from one point to another while suspended or on an axis
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