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▸ 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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