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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.”
The fact of being a member of a group
A movement from side to side or back and forth
A person who drives or pilots a vehicle
Person who makes things happen
A component of the action of a mechanical keyboard instrument such as a piano or organ
A narrow strip of leather or other material, used especially as a fastening or as the lash of a whip
Something that provokes or incites a response or behavior
An act of moving from one point to another while suspended or on an axis
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 sway or wave (something) from side to side
To go somewhere quickly, usually without notice
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
Exceptionally clever or talented
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