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. [1913 Webster]
To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to
cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top. [1913
Webster]
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. [1913 Webster] Who, for false
quantities, was whipped at school. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as
with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
[1913 Webster] They would whip me with their fine wits. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking;
as, to whip wheat. [1913 Webster]
To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth,
as with a whisk, fork, or the like. [1913 Webster]
To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game;
to beat; to surpass. [Slang, U. S.] [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster] Its
string is firmly whipped about with small gut. --Moxon. [1913
Webster]
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. [1913 Webster] In half-whipped
muslin needles useless lie. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to
snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like. [1913 Webster]
She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster] He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes
descriptions of everything he sees. --Walpole. [1913 Webster]
(Naut.) (a) To hoist or purchase by means of a
whip. (b) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from
untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff. [1913 Webster]
To fish (a body of water) with a rod and
artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
[1913 Webster] Whipping their rough surface for a trout. --Emerson.
[1913 Webster] To whip in,
to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt; hence,
to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the like.
To whip
the cat. (a) To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov. Eng.]
--Forby. (b) To go from house to house working by the day, as
itinerant tailors and carpenters do. [Prov. & U. S.] [1913
Webster] [1913 Webster]
Word Net
whipped See whipwhip
Noun
1 an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash
that is used for whipping
2 a legislator appointed by the party to enforce
discipline [syn: party
whip]
3 a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg
whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit
4 (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf
club
Verb
1 beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher
often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
[syn: flog, welt, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]
3 thrash about flexibly in the manner of a
whiplash; "The tall grass whipped in the wind"
4 strike as if by whipping; "The curtain whipped
her face" [syn: lash]
5 whip with or as if with a wire whisk; "whisk
the eggs" [syn: whisk]
6 subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator
blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the
professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the
community" [syn: blister, scald] [also: whipping, whipped]
Moby Thesaurus
all up with, beat, beaten, bested, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, carbonated, chiffon, confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, ebullient, effervescent, fallen, fixed, fizzy, floored, hors de combat, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, puffed, put to rout, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, stampeded, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, vesicular, whelmed, worstedEnglish
Pronunciation
- /ʍɪpt/
- Rhymes with: -ɪpt
Adjective
- Controlled by a spouse or significant other to an unreasonable degree.
Verb
whipped- past of whip
Whipped may refer to:
- Whipped (film), a 2000 independent comedy film
- Whipped!, Faster Pussycat's third album