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| n. (artifact) | 1. quirt | whip with a leather thong at the end. |
| ~ whip | an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping. |
| whip | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. whip | an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping. |
| ~ cat-o'-nine-tails, cat | a whip with nine knotted cords.; "British sailors feared the cat" |
| ~ cowhide | a heavy flexible whip braided from leather made from the hide of a cow. |
| ~ crop | the stock or handle of a whip. |
| ~ horsewhip | a whip for controlling horses. |
| ~ instrument | a device that requires skill for proper use. |
| ~ knout | a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners. |
| ~ thong, lash | leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip. |
| ~ quirt | whip with a leather thong at the end. |
| ~ hunting crop, riding crop | a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates. |
| ~ flagellum, scourge | a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor). |
| ~ stock | the handle end of some implements or tools.; "he grabbed the cue by the stock" |
| ~ strap | whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging. |
| n. (person) | 2. party whip, whip | a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline. |
| ~ legislator | someone who makes or enacts laws. |
| n. (food) | 3. whip | a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit. |
| ~ afters, dessert, sweet | a dish served as the last course of a meal. |
| ~ prune whip | dessert made of prune puree and whipped cream. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. whip | (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club. |
| ~ golf, golf game | a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes. |
| ~ flexibility, flexibleness | the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped. |
| n. (act) | 5. lash, whip, whiplash | a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object.; "the whip raised a red welt" |
| ~ blow | a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon.; "a blow on the head" |
| v. (contact) | 6. flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| ~ beat up, work over, beat | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
| ~ flagellate, scourge | whip.; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" |
| ~ leather | whip with a leather strap. |
| ~ horsewhip | whip with a whip intended for horses. |
| ~ switch | flog with or as if with a flexible rod. |
| ~ cowhide | flog with a cowhide. |
| ~ cat | beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails. |
| ~ birch | whip with a birch twig. |
| v. (competition) | 7. mop up, pip, rack up, whip, worst | defeat thoroughly.; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| v. (motion) | 8. whip | thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.; "The tall grass whipped in the wind" |
| ~ jactitate, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, thrash, convulse, toss, slash | move or stir about violently.; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" |
| v. (contact) | 9. lash, whip | strike as if by whipping.; "The curtain whipped her face" |
| ~ strike | deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead" |
| ~ urticate | whip with or as with nettles. |
| v. (contact) | 10. whip, whisk | whip with or as if with a wire whisk.; "whisk the eggs" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ scramble, beat | stir vigorously.; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" |
| v. (communication) | 11. blister, scald, whip | subject to harsh criticism.; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community" |
| ~ lash out, attack, assail, assault, snipe, round | attack in speech or writing.; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" |
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