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(US, military slang, derogatory) Synonym of 11 Bang-Bang
n
(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.
n
A flogging with a bamboo cane.
n
The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
n
A person who flogs using a birch rod.
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A form of corporal punishment or hazing formerly common in militaries in which the victim is restrained with a blanket and beaten.
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Alternative form of bullwhip [(transitive) To beat with a bullwhip.]
v
(transitive) To beat with a bullwhip.
v
to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
v
(transitive) To beat with a cartwhip.
n
A beating with a cartwhip.
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A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
n
A flogging with a cowhide.
n
Any maneuver in a variety of disciplines that mimics the motion of the tail of a whip.
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One who beats with a cudgel.
n
A beating with a cudgel.
v
(transitive, rare) To beat with a dogwhip.
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A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
n
Punishment with a ferule.
adj
Given to flagellation.
v
(transitive) To whip or scourge.
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(historical) A former Welsh tradition, on St. Stephen's Day, of slashing female servants and late risers with holly branches.
v
(transitive) To flog or lash with a horsewhip.
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(historical) corporal punishments in the Indosphere
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A form of torture, among the ancient Chinese, in which planks of wood squeeze or hit the victim's feet.
n
A flogging with a knout.
n
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
adj
Carrying or wielding a whip.
adj
spanked with a paddle, e.g. in corporal punishment.
n
A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms.
n
A stout leather strap reinforced internally with whalebone or even lead and used to inflict punishment, especially by striking the palms of schoolboys.
v
(transitive) To strike or beat (someone) with a pistol, especially with its butt.
v
Alternative form of pistol-whip [(transitive) To strike or beat (someone) with a pistol, especially with its butt.]
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(historical) A whip, as an instrument of punishment or torture in Russia.
n
A forceful poke or shove.
v
(transitive) To beat with a rawhide whip.
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A spanking with a ruler.
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(Britain) A non-binding indication, given to an MP by the MP's superiors, of when a vote is expected to take place, and what outcome the MP's party would like.
v
(transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.
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An instrument used to give someone a spanking or spank, such as a paddle.
v
(transitive) To use such a whip.
v
(archaic) To beat; cudgel.
v
(transitive, slang, dated) To flog; to lash.
n
Corporal punishment by use of a switch (twig or twigs).
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(Cockney rhyming slang) An egg.
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(by extension, humorous) An imperative order.
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A club, rod, stick, etc., used to thwack.
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(countable) A thrashing.
n
A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
adv
With the utmost haste.
n
A graft formed by whip grafting.
v
(transitive, figuratively, politics) To keep a party member in line.
n
(film) A type of pan shot in which the camera pans so quickly that the picture blurs into indistinct streaks, commonly used as a transition.
v
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see whip, cat.
n
(politics) The art or skill of a political whip, who enforces the party's policies in votes.
n
Alternative form of whip graft [A graft formed by whip grafting.]
n
A manufacturer of whips.
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The manufacture of whips.
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The skill or art of using a whip.
adj
(of cream, etc.) That can be whipped.
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The recipient of a whipping.
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(politics) One who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions.
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(transferred sense) Someone punished for the errors of others.
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A post or pillory to which a criminal is tied, and flagellated.
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Synonym of whiptail stingray
n
Someone who uses a whip.
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A form of torture, among the ancient Chinese, in which wooden sticks are placed around the victim's fingers and used to crush or break the fingers.
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