whip
Meaning of whip
noun
- a strip of leather or length of cord fastened to a handle, used for flogging or beating a person or for urging on an animal.
- an official of a political party appointed to maintain parliamentary discipline among its members, especially so as to ensure attendance and voting in debates.
- a dessert consisting of cream or eggs beaten into a light fluffy mass with fruit, chocolate, or other ingredients.
- short for whipper-in.
- a slender, unbranched shoot or plant.
- a scythe for cutting specified crops.
a grass whip
- a rope-and-pulley hoisting apparatus.
- a car.
I just got new wheels for my whip
- beat (a person or animal) with a whip or similar instrument, especially as a punishment or to urge them on.
Lewis whipped the boy twenty times
- move fast or suddenly in a specified direction.
he whipped round to face them
- beat (cream, eggs, or other food) into a froth.
- steal (something).
the escaper had whipped his overcoat
- bind (something) with spirally wound twine.
the side linings are whipped or hemmed
Middle English: probably from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch wippen ‘swing, leap, dance’, from a Germanic base meaning ‘move quickly’. The noun is partly from the verb, reinforced by Middle Low German wippe ‘quick movement’.
Information about whip
- The plural form of whip is: whips.
- Languages in which whip is used:
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Hyphenation of whip
whip
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- whip is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
whip synonyms
Meaning lash:
Meaning flog:
flog, welt, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
Meaning worst:
Meaning whisk:
Meaning blister:
Meaning a whip used as an instrument of punishment:
Meaning a narrow strip of leather or other material, used especially as a fastening or as the lash of a whip:
Meaning a strip of leather or other material worn, typically round the waist, to support or hold in clothes or to carry weapons:
Meaning short for riding crop or hunting crop:
Meaning a device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit:
Meaning a slender hardy tree which has thin peeling bark and bears catkins. Birch trees grow chiefly in northern temperate regions and yield hard, pale, fine-grained timber:
Meaning the hollow jointed stem of a tall grass, especially bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem of a slender palm such as rattan:
Meaning a small domesticated carnivorous mammal with soft fur, a short snout, and retractable claws. It is widely kept as a pet or for catching mice, and many breeds have been developed:
Meaning (in imperial Russia) a whip used to inflict punishment, often causing death:
Meaning flog (someone), either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification:
Meaning beat (someone) repeatedly as a punishment:
Meaning beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip:
Meaning strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip:
Meaning beat or thrash (someone):
Meaning run or travel somewhere in a great hurry:
Meaning move with urgent haste:
Meaning move or progress swiftly or at full speed:
Meaning move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time:
Meaning run at full speed over a short distance:
Meaning fasten (a door or window) with a bar that slides into a socket:
Meaning move or run somewhere suddenly or rapidly:
Meaning (of a horse) go at the pace of a gallop:
Meaning move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way:
Meaning demand (an amount) as a price for a service rendered or goods supplied:
Meaning kill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow:
Meaning move or cause to move at high speed, typically in an uncontrolled manner:
Meaning run with great speed:
Meaning walk or run with leaping strides:
Meaning (of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings:
Meaning move quickly:
Meaning move very fast in a specified direction:
Meaning move or travel very quickly:
Meaning jump or dive quickly and energetically:
Meaning plunge head first into water with one's arms raised over one's head:
Meaning (of a person or small animal) move hurriedly with short quick steps:
Meaning a metal container with a handle, used to fetch and store coal for a domestic fire:
Meaning (especially of a small animal or child) run with quick light steps, especially through fear or excitement:
Meaning make one's way quickly or awkwardly up a steep gradient or over rough ground by using one's hands as well as one's feet:
Meaning move very quickly in a reckless or excited manner:
Meaning run somewhere very quickly:
Meaning go or leave somewhere quickly:
Meaning move or cause to move suddenly and rapidly:
Meaning move at high speed:
Meaning come, go, or move somewhere rapidly or in a forceful way:
Meaning move very quickly:
Meaning (of a vehicle) move quickly and jerkily:
Meaning snatch or remove (something) quickly:
Meaning dance to pop or rock music:
Meaning fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips:
Meaning drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control:
Meaning a group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership:
Meaning display (a notice) in a public place:
Meaning go quickly:
Meaning archaic term for hasten:
Meaning combine or put together to form one substance or mass:
Meaning move a spoon or other implement round in (a liquid or other substance) in order to mix it thoroughly:
Meaning take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it:
Meaning steal (something):
Meaning be a thief; steal something:
Meaning lay hold of (something) with one's hands; reach for and hold:
Meaning steal goods from (a place), typically during a war or riot:
Meaning steal (things of little value):
Meaning take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission:
Meaning consider something theoretically or separately from (something else):
Meaning steal goods from a shop while pretending to be a customer:
Meaning steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works):
Meaning dishonestly or unfairly take (something, especially money, belonging to another) for one's own use:
Meaning steal:
rob, swipe, snitch, nick, heist, glom
Meaning catch (someone) doing something wrong:
Meaning set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression:
Meaning pilfer or steal (something, especially an item of small value) in a casual way:
Meaning take (something) for oneself, typically quickly or without permission:
Meaning take as a memento:
Meaning steal or take without permission:
Meaning try to influence or thwart by underhand or unfair methods:
Meaning remove the bones from (meat or fish) before cooking, serving, or selling:
Meaning steal (fruit) from an orchard or garden:
Meaning manage to obtain (something) by using persuasion or guile:
Meaning steal; grab:
Meaning copy (another person's work) illicitly or without acknowledgement:
Meaning attach or fasten with a hook or hooks:
Meaning embezzle or steal (money, especially public funds):
Meaning embezzle (funds with which one has been entrusted):
Meaning move at a regular pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn, never having both feet off the ground at once:
whip antonyms
Meaning waste time; be slow:
Translation of whip
- German: Peitsche, peitschen, schlagen
- French: fouet, fouetter, flageller, battre
- Spanish: fuete, azotar, batir, barrer, vencer
- Portuguese: chicote, chicotear, bater
- Italian: frusta, frustino, capogruppo, mousse, frustare, balzare, montare, sbattere, frullare, vincere, sconfiggere, distruggere
Words that rhyme with whip
Whip, horsewhip, prewhip, coachwhip, bullwhip, unwhip, overwhip, yarwhip, cartwhip
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