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whip

noun

he would use a whip on anyone trespassing on his property:

lash, scourge, thong, strap, belt;

crop, switch, birch, cane;

historical cat-o'-nine-tails, cat, knout.

□ the whip hand

life became a battle over who would gain the whip hand:

the upper hand, a commanding position, an/the edge, an advantage, a lead, a head start, ascendancy, superiority, supremacy, sway, control, predominance, power, mastery, dominance, command;

rare prepotence, prepotency, paramountcy, prepollency.

verb

1 Lewis whipped the boy twenty times:

flog, scourge, flagellate, lash, birch, switch, tan, strap, belt, cane, thrash, beat, leather, tan/whip someone's hide, give someone a hiding, beat the living daylights out of.

2 whip the cream until it forms soft peaks:

whisk, beat, mix, stir.

3 the radio host whipped his listeners into a frenzy:

rouse, stir up, excite, galvanize, electrify, stimulate, inspire, move, fire up, fire the enthusiasm of, fire the imagination of, get someone going, inflame, agitate, goad, provoke;

incite, egg on, spur on;

North American light a fire under;

rare inspirit.

4 informal Cleveland whipped Los Angeles 28–16 in the third game of last season:

trounce, defeat utterly, beat hollow, win a resounding victory over, annihilate, drub, rout, give someone a drubbing, crush, overwhelm, bring someone to their knees;

informal hammer, clobber, thrash, paste, give someone a pasting, pound, pulverize, massacre, crucify, demolish, destroy, wipe the floor with, take to the cleaners, make mincemeat of, murder, flatten, turn inside out, run rings around;

British, informal stuff, marmalize;

North American, informal shellac, blow out, cream, skunk;

US, informal own.

5 informal he whipped round the corner:

dash, rush, race, run, sprint, bolt, dart, gallop, career, charge, shoot, hurtle, hare, bound, fly, speed, streak, zoom, plunge, dive, whisk, scurry, scuttle, scamper, scramble;

informal tear, belt, pelt, scoot, zap, zip, step on it, get a move on, hotfoot it, go hell for leather, steam, put on some speed, go like a bat out of hell, burn rubber;

British, informal bomb, go like the clappers, bucket, put one's foot down, leg it;

Scottish, informal wheech;

North American, informal boogie, hightail it, clip, barrel, get the lead out;

informal , dated cut along;

North American, vulgar slang drag/tear/haul ass;

literary fleet;

archaic post, hie, haste.

▷antonyms dawdle.

6 informal he whipped out a revolver:

pull, whisk, snatch, pluck, tug, jerk, remove, take;

produce;

informal yank.

7 British, informal they whipped the cones from a building site:

steal, purloin, thieve, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, loot, pilfer, abscond with, run off with, appropriate, abstract, carry off, shoplift;

embezzle, misappropriate;

have one's fingers/hand in the till;

informal walk off/away with, run away/off with, rob, swipe, nab, rip off, lift, liberate, filch, snaffle, snitch, souvenir;

British, informal nick, pinch, half-inch, knock off, nobble, bone, scrump, blag;

North American, informal heist, glom;

Australian, informal snavel;

Australian, dated , informal clifty;

West Indian, informal tief;

archaic crib, hook;

rare peculate, defalcate;

(be whipped) informal walk, go walkies.

□ whip something up

we tried hard to whip up interest in the products:

stimulate, rouse, arouse, stir up, work up, wake, waken, awaken, quicken, inspire, call forth, call/bring into being, draw forth, bring out, excite, evoke, whet, stir, provoke, spur, fire, inflame, trigger, prompt, induce, encourage, actuate, activate, touch off, spark off, set off, set going, incite, promote, engender, generate;

literary enkindle.

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