Usually means: Long, slender, fast-moving snake.
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  1. whip snake: Merriam-Webster
  2. whip snake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whip snake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whip snake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. whip-snake, whip snake: Vocabulary.com
  6. whip snake: Wordnik
  7. whip snake: Wiktionary
  8. whip-snake, whip snake: Dictionary.com
  9. Whip snake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. whip-snake, whip snake: Rhymezone
  11. whip-snake, whip snake: FreeDictionary.org
  12. whip-snake, whip snake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. whip-snake, whip snake: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whip snake)

noun:  Any of the slender snakes of diverse genera and species:
noun:  genus Ahaetulla native to southern Asia and parts of Oceania.
noun:  genus Demansia, native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and nearby islands
noun:  genus Hemorrhois, native to the western Mediterranean, west, central, and southern Asia
noun:  genus Hierophis, native to southern Europe
noun:  genus Masticophis, native to the Americas
noun:  species Suta dwyeri, found in Australia from New South Wales to South Queensland
noun:  white-lipped snake (Drysdalia coronoides), found in Tasmania and southeastern Australia.
noun:  Caspian whipsnake (Dolichophis caspius), found in the Balkans and Eastern Europe
noun:  red whip snake (Platyceps collaris), found in Bulgaria and the Levant

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