whip
[noun]
Synonyms:
- lash, birch, cane, cat-o'-nine-tails, crop, scourge
[verb]
Synonyms:
- lash, beat, birch, cane, flagellate, flog, scourge, spank, strap, thrash
- dash, dart, dive, fly, rush, shoot, tear, whisk
- beat, whisk
- incite, agitate, drive, foment, goad, spur, stir, work up

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Related Idioms: cook one's goose, deal a crushing defeat, settle one's hash, snow one under
Related Words: beat, belabor, drub, wallop, bastinado, birch, bludgeon, cane, cudgel, quirt, switch, conquer, defeat, overcome, subdue, vanquish

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. whip¹ /wɪp/ verb (past tense and past participle whipped, present participle whipping)
[Date: 1200-1300; Origin: Probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wippen 'to swing']

1. [transitive] to hit someone or something with a whip:
He whipped the horse into a canter.

2. [intransitive, transitive always + adverb/preposition] to move quickly and violently, or to make something do this:
The wind whipped her hair into her eyes.
whip across/around/past etc
Rain whipped across the window pane.
whip something about/around
The branches were being whipped about in the storm.
whip round/around
He whipped round to face them.

3. [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to move or remove something with a quick sudden movement
whip something off/out/back etc
Annie whipped off her apron and put it into the drawer.
He whipped back the sheets.

4. [transitive] to mix cream or the clear part of an egg very hard until it becomes stiff ⇒ beat, whisk:
Whip the cream until thick.

5. [transitive] British English informal to steal something
whip through something phrasal verb informal
to finish a job very quickly:
He whipped through his routine paperwork before going home.
whip somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verb

1. to try to make people feel strongly about something
whip up interest/opposition/support etc
They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book.
an attempt to whip up the masses

2. to quickly make something to eat:
Mother was in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cakes.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. whip² noun

1. [countable] a long thin piece of rope or leather with a handle, that you hit animals with to make them move or that you hit someone with to punish them:
The coachman cracked his whip and the carriage lurched forward.

2. [countable] a member of the US Congress or the British Parliament who is responsible for making sure that the members of their party attend and vote

3. [countable] a written order sent to members of the British Parliament telling them when and how to vote ⇒ three-line whip

4. [uncountable and countable] British English a sweet dish made from the white part of eggs and chocolate or fruit, beaten together to make a smooth light mixture:
pineapple whip

5. have the whip hand to have power and control over someone
⇒ crack the whip at crack¹(14), ⇒ give somebody a fair crack of the whip at fair¹(9)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

whip
noun
ADJ. driving, riding | bull, horse
VERB + WHIP crack, flick He cracked the whip and the horse leapt forward.
VERB + WHIP crack A hound yelped briefly as a whip cracked.
PHRASES the crack of a whip

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

whip
verb
I. hit sb/sth with a whip
ADV. soundly He was taken back to the jail and soundly whipped.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

whip
II. mix sth until it is light and stiff
ADV. gently, lightly Lightly whip the egg whites and add them to the mixture.
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