1. Beating with a whip, strap or rope as a form of punishment
   "Flogging was once a common punishment in the navy";
   - whipping, tanning, lashing, flagellation

1. Beat severely with a whip or rod
   "The sailor was flogd for disobedience";
   - welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. Beat with a cane
   "The old-fashioned teacher flogged the unruly student";
   - cane, lambaste, lambast
    
3. [Brit, informal] Exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent
   "He flogged his old car for a good price";
   - sell
    
4. [Brit, informal] Travel with considerable effort
   "most of them cannot be bothered to flog over to a fruit farm when they can go to Sainsbury's and buy exotic fruit from all over the world"

Derived forms: floggings

Type of: beat, beat up, beating, change, drubbing, exchange, hiding [informal], interchange, thrashing, work over [informal]

Encyclopedia: Flogging