Whip

Noun

 * 1) A lash: an object that is pliant and flexible: commonly a rod; (cane or rattan) or  plaited or braided (commonly leather ) rope or thong used to create a sharp "crack" sound for encouraging, directing or herding animals
 * 2) same instrument used to strike a person or animal for punishment in corporal punishment or torture.
 * 3) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
 * 4) Whipped cream.
 * 5)  A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
 * 6) (slang/African American Vernacular English) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.

Synonyms

 * cat- a corporal punishment whip with multiple "tails" commonly used in the British Royal Navy.
 * crop, dressage whip, driving whip, jumping bat.
 * flail
 * knout
 * lash
 * quirt
 * scourge
 * sjambok
 * thong

Derived terms

 * bullock-whip
 * bullwhip
 * buggy whip
 * coachwhip
 * dogwhip
 * drafting whip
 * horsewhip
 * longe whip
 * signal whip, signalwhip
 * snake whip, snakewhip
 * stockwhip
 * whipcracking
 * whip snake
 * yard whip

Verb

 * 1)  To hit with a whip.
 * She loves being whipped and handcuffed.
 * whip the horse.
 * 1)  By extension, to hit with any flexible object.
 * I whipped her with a newspaper.
 * 1)  To defeat.
 * 2) * 2008, Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel
 * She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
 * “Have you been practising?” I ask my sister.
 * “Some,” she says, “play again?”
 * “One more.”
 * My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.
 * 1)  To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
 * Can you whip this to make the sauce smoother.
 * 1)  To urge into action.
 * He whipped the department into shape.
 * 1)  To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling
 * 2)  To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
 * 3) * He whipped the ball at me.
 * 4)  To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
 * 5)  To snap back and forth like a whip.
 * 6) * The pennants whipped in the wind.
 * 7)  To move very fast.
 * 8) * The wind whipped through the valley.
 * 9) * He whipped a banknote out of his pocket.
 * 10) * 1886, ,
 * He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.
 * He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.

Synonyms

 * flail
 * flog
 * knout
 * lash
 * quirt
 * scourge
 * thrash
 * thresh

Derived terms

 * whip in
 * whip off
 * whip up
 * whipper

Adverbs for Whip
unmercifully; deservedly; savagely; brutally; remorselessly; viciously.

Thesaurus
Ferris wheel, Jehu, MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, accelerate, aerate, agitate, alderman, assemblyman, avert, bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beat up, belabor, belt, best, birch, blast, bludgeon, bowl down, box, buffet, bullwhacker, bundle, bustle, cabby, cabdriver, cabman, cage, cameleer, cane, carousel, carter, cartman, charioteer, chosen freeholder, churn, churn up, chute-the-chutes, chutes, city father, clabber, clobber, clot, club, coachman, coachy, coagulate, cocher, cochero, colloid, colloidize, congressman, congresswoman, conquer, convulse, cool, corral, councilman, cowhide, cream, crowd, cudgel, cuff, curdle, curry, cut, defeat, deflect, destroy, disarrange, discompose, dispatch, disquiet, disturb, divert, do in, drayman, drive, drive on, driver, drove, drub, dust, elephant driver, emulsify, emulsionize, excite, expedite, ferment, fix, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, floor leader, flurry, flying horses, foam, forward, fret, froth, fustigate, gad, gadfly, gharry-wallah, give a whipping, give the stick, goad, hack, hackman, hacky, hammer, harness racer, haste, hasten, hasten on, herd, hide, hie on, hors de combat, horsewhip, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hustle, hustle up, incrassate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lather, lawgiver, lawmaker, lay on, legislator, lick, lopper, mahout, majority leader, mantle, maul, merry-go-round, minority leader, mop up, mule skinner, muleteer, needle, nudge, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, overcome, overrun, overwhelm, oxgoad, paddle, party whip, paste, patter, pelt, perturb, perturbate, pistol-whip, pivot, poke, pommel, pound, precipitate, press, prick, prod, pulverize, pummel, punch cattle, push, push on, push through, put, quicken, quirt, railroad through, rap, rawhide, reinsman, representative, ride herd on, rile, ripple, roil, roller coaster, roughen, round up, roundabout, rout, rowel, ruffle, ruin, rumple, rush, rush along, scourge, scum, seesaw, senator, settle, shake, shake up, sheer, shellac, shepherd, skin, skin alive, skinner, skunk, slap, sledgehammer, smack, smear, smite, smother, solon, spank, speed, speed along, speed up, spume, spur, stage coachman, stampede, state senator, steamroller, sting, stir, stir up, strap, stripe, subdue, sud, suds, swing, swinge, swirl, switch, teamster, teeter-totter, thicken, thrash, thresh, thump, trim, triumph over, trouble, trounce, truckman, truncheon, undo, upend, upset, urge, vanquish, veer, vetturino, voiturier, volte-face, wagoner, wagonman, wallop, wear out, whale, wheel, whip along, whip up, whiplash, whirl, whirligig, whisk, whomp, whop, work up, worst, wrangle, yerk

Etymology
From hwippen: or whippen:. Middle High German wipfen:, wepfen: and Middle Dutch wippen:. Possibly from a, although such word has not yet been found written. Perhaps also from vibro:. Some similarity to Sanskrit root वेपति:. (See Swedish vippa: and Danish vippe:).

Noun

 * Afrikaans: roer
 * Albanian: kamxhik
 * Arabic: سوط
 * Azeri: çubuq
 * Bengali: বেত
 * Bulgarian: бич (bič)
 * Catalan: fuet
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 鞭子 (biānzi)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Ebonic:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: piitsutama
 * Faroese: píska
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שׁוֹט (šot)
 * Hindi: (chabuka), छबुक
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Inuktitut: ᐃᐱᕋᐅᑕᖅ
 * Irish: fuip
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 鞭 (むち) (muchi)
 * Korean: 채찍 (chaejjik)
 * Latvian: pātaga


 * Lithuanian: botagas
 * Malayalam: ചാട്ട (chaatta)
 * Malaysian: cambok
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Papiamentu: zuip
 * Persian: ﻕﻻﺸ ‘ﻩﻨﺎﻴﺯﺎﺘ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: бич (bič)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan: krawasi
 * Swahili: kambaa (nc 5/6),
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: latiko
 * Telugu: కొరడా (koraDA)
 * Thai: (hùat)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: qamcha
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: chwip
 * West Frisian: swipe
 * !Xóõ: ǁn̥a̰m
 * Yiddish: בײַטש (baytsh)
 * Yucatec: hats'ik


 * Finnish: piiskuri


 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Arabic: يجلد بسوط
 * Czech:
 * Danish: piske
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: peitschen, auspeitschen, anpeitschen


 * Greek: μαστιγώνω
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: chicotear
 * Spanish:, fustigar
 * Swahili:


 * Danish: piske
 * Finnish:
 * German: peitschen


 * Greek: μαστιγώνω
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Indonesian:


 * Spanish: dar una paliza
 * Swahili:


 * Czech:
 * Danish: piske
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: χτυπάω


 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: vispa


 * Finnish:
 * German: anpeitschen
 * Indonesian:


 * Spanish: atosigar
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: rihmata
 * Indonesian:


 * Finnish:


 * Spanish: dar velocidad


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: (transitive structure used in Finnish)
 * Indonesian:


 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish: (transitive structure used in Finnish)


 * Spanish:


 * : vipi
 * : azotar