Usually means: Instrument for striking or punishment.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. whip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. whip, whip, the whip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. whip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Whip, whip: Wordnik
  7. whip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. WHIP, whip: Wiktionary
  9. whip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. whip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. WHIP: Dictionary.com
  13. whip (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. whip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Whip (Shelly Gaynor), The Whip (band), The Whip (play), The Whip (ride), The Whip, WHIP (AM), Whip (comics), Whip (dance move), Whip (disambiguation), Whip (implement), Whip (instrument), Whip (musician), Whip (percussion), Whip (politics), Whip (tree), Whip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Whip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. whip: Rhymezone
  19. whip: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. whip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. WHIP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Whip: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. whip: Free Dictionary
  24. whip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. whip: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. whip: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whip (disambiguation), Whip (implement), whip: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whip (implement), whip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WHIP, Whip (implement): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  4. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. WHIP: Acronym Finder
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. whip: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. whip, whip, whip, whip, whip, whip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. whip: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. W.H.I.P, the whip: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Whip: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See whiplike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
noun:  A blow administered with a whip.
noun:  (hunting) A whipper-in.
noun:  (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
noun:  (UK politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
noun:  (UK politics, by extension) The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
noun:  Whipped cream.
noun:  (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, MTE) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
noun:  (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
noun:  A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
noun:  The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
noun:  Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
noun:  A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
noun:  (music) A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
noun:  (historical) A coach driver; a coachman.
verb:  (transitive) To hit with a whip.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To hit with any flexible object.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
verb:  (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
verb:  (transitive) To urge into action or obedience.
verb:  (transitive, politics) To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
verb:  To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
verb:  (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
verb:  (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.
verb:  (intransitive) To move very fast.
verb:  (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
verb:  (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
verb:  (figurative) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
verb:  To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
noun:  (baseball) Acronym of walks plus hits per inning pitched; a statistic of the number of baserunners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched.

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