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whip noun 1 a lash with a handle for driving animals or punishing people. 2 a stroke administered by, or as if by, such a lash. 3 a whipping action or motion. 4 someone accustomed to using, or proficient with, a whip, especially a driver or coachman. 5 politics a member of a parliamentary party responsible for members' discipline, and for their attendance to vote on important issues. 6 politics a notice sent to members by a party whip requiring their attendance for a vote, urgency being indicated (in compounds) by the number of underlinings • a three-line whip. 7 a dessert of any of various flavours made with beaten egg-whites or cream. 8 a whipper-in. 9 a simple form of hoisting apparatus consisting of a single rope and block. verb (whipped, whipping) 1 to strike or thrash with a whip. 2 to punish someone with lashes or smacking. 3 to lash someone or something with the action or force of a whip • a sharp wind whipped their faces. 4 tr & intr to move or make something move with a sudden or whip-like motion • the branch whipped back. 5 (usually whip something off or out, etc) to take or snatch it • whipped out a revolver. 6 tr & intr to move smartly • whipped out of sight. 7 to rouse, goad, drive or force into a certain state • whipped the crowd into a fury. 8 colloq to steal. 9 to beat (egg-whites or cream, etc) until stiff. 10 to make (egg-whites) frothy by rapidly stirring and turning them with a whisk or similar utensil. 11 to wind cord round (a rope, etc) to prevent fraying. 12 to oversew; to sew using whipstitch. 13 colloq to outdo, outwit or defeat. whipper noun. whipping noun, adj. a fair crack of the whip see under crack.
ETYMOLOGY: 13c.