whip

whip is a 4-letter English word with 34 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 34 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
2. transitive verb. To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
3. transitive verb. To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
4. transitive verb. To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
5. transitive verb. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
6. transitive verb. To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
7. transitive verb. To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
8. transitive verb. To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
9. transitive verb. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
10. transitive verb. To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
11. transitive verb. To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
12. transitive verb. To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
13. transitive verb. To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
14. intransitive verb. To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
15. transitive verb. An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.
16. transitive verb. A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
17. transitive verb. One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.
18. transitive verb. The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
19. transitive verb. A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
20. transitive verb. The long pennant. See Pennant (a)
21. transitive verb. A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
22. transitive verb. A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.
23. transitive verb. A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
24. noun. a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

    "the whip raised a red welt"

    Synonyms: lash, whiplash

25. noun. an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
26. noun. (golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club
27. noun. a dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit
28. noun. a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline
29. verb. subject to harsh criticism

    "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"

    "the professor scaled the students"

    Synonyms: blister, scald

30. verb. defeat thoroughly

    "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"

    Synonyms: pip, worst

31. verb. strike as if by whipping

    "The curtain whipped her face"

    Synonyms: lash

32. verb. beat severely with a whip or rod

    "The teacher often flogged the students"

    "The children were severely trounced"

    Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt

33. verb. whip with or as if with a wire whisk

    "whisk the eggs"

    Synonyms: whisk

34. verb. thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash

    "The tall grass whipped in the wind"

Synonyms

lash, whiplash, blister, scald, pip, worst, flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whisk

Common word forms

whips, whipped, whipper, whipless, whipping

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