Whip
A whipping motion; a thrashing about; as, the whip of a tense rope or wire which has suddenly parted; also, the quality of being whiplike or flexible; flexibility; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion, as a spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit, or a rocking certain piano actions.
To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.
A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.
The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
The long pennant. See Pennant (a)
A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.
A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
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Whip Quotations
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Muhammad Ali
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
William Tecumseh Sherman
When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.
Steve Irwin
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Truman Capote
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
Truman Capote
If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
David Byrne
The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
Norman Rockwell
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Xenophon
But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away.
Brian Lumley
I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'
Harrison Ford
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
Jackson Browne
Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
Lucy Liu
I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
Patricia Highsmith
Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.
John Candy
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Eugenio Montale
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
George Gissing
Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?
George Smathers
Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.
Curt Siodmak
Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.
Ernst Thalmann
I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.
Shannon Elizabeth
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Diogenes of Sinope
The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.
Joseph Crowley
Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
Bill Kristol
Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.
Anne Robinson
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Whip Translations
whip in Afrikaans is roer
whip in Dutch is doorroeren, omroeren, roeren
whip in French is flageller, fouet, fouetter
whip in German is Peitsche, peitschen, auspeitschen, Peitsche
whip in Italian is frusta
whip in Portuguese is chicote
whip in Swedish is vispa, piska
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