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Alternative spelling of able whackets [(nautical slang, now historical) Blows on the hand from a knotted or twisted handkerchief, especially given as a punishment to the loser of certain card games.]
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(rare) A blow; a drubbing.
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A blow with a cudgel or stick.
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(transitive, rare) To whack about; whack all over
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An assault with a club or similar weapon.
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(Australia, slang, obsolete or historical) 25 lashes, ie. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment.
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(offensive) The alleged act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by first flogging him, and subsequently sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves, in order to humiliate him.
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(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
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(military, prison) an unofficial form of punishment among the crew or prisoners involving blows to the buttocks from a piece of wood or a handsaw.
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(figuratively) To make harsh demands in a position of leadership.
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The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
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(Australia, New Zealand, dated or historical, with "the") Corporal punishment at school.
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A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
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(slang) An act of roughly rubbing one's knuckles across the top of another person's head with the intent of causing pain and humiliation, often while pinning the other person's head with one's free arm.
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(archaic, boxing) Repeatedly striking an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating.
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The act of whipping oneself, typically for religious penance or for sexual excitement
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A beating consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.
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Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
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A violent protest against the drinking of alcohol in which the protester attacks the bar with a hatchet.
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A beating with a horsewhip.
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(slang, obsolete, by extension) A thorough thrashing or mauling; rough treatment.
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(India) The police tactic of charging a crowd with lathis or batons in order to disperse it.
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(transitive) To beat with a maul.
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An act of corporal punishment consisting of spanking the buttocks with a paddle.
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(UK, slang, neologism, uncountable) An assault or act of humiliation that is deliberately filmed to be shared on social media.
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(transitive) To attack with repeatedly soft blows (physically or otherwise)
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Alternative form of piñata [To hit something or someone with sticks after having filled them with candy.]
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One who pummels (someone or something)
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(slang) the indentation of a surface caused by an incorrect hammer strike (missing the nail)
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A beating with a scourge; a flogging.
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(idiomatic) Six strokes with a cane, a traditional school punishment.
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A spanking with a slipper.
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Alternative form of sockdolager (“finishing blow or conclusive argument”) [(US, slang, dated) A hard hit, a knockout or finishing blow, or conclusive argument.]
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(slang) A violent blow; a punch.
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A light blow with something flat.
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(Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person′s back.
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The holding of a wapinschaw.
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(Britain) A humorous sport in which the aim is to throw a Wellington boot as far as possible.
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(obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
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(Scotland, Northern England) A strike with the fist; a blow; a knock.
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(transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
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(UK, Australia, obsolete, idiomatic) To practice extreme parsimony.
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Pronunciation spelling of whipping.
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With a whipping motion.
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Of a trade union: to coerce employers into capitulating by bringing them the news that other (more easily convinced) employers have already done so.
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Alternative spelling of wifebeater [One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence.]
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One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence.
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