1. Beating with a whip, strap or rope as a form of punishment
   "whipping was once a common punishment in the navy";
   - tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation
    
2. A sound defeat
   "The underdog team received a whipping in the championship game";
   - thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing [informal], slaughter, trouncing, pasting [informal], hammering [informal], débâcle, beatdown [N. Amer], smackdown [N. Amer, informal], licking [informal]
    
3. A sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
   "She used a whipping to finish the edge of the blanket";
   - whipstitch, whipstitching
    
4. The act of overcoming or outdoing
   "The underdog team gave the champions a sound whipping in the final match";
   - beating
    
5. Cord or twine wrapped around rope ends to prevent fraying
   "The sailor added whipping to secure the rope"

1. Beat severely with a whip or rod
   "The sailor was whipd for disobedience";
   - flog, welt, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. Strike as if by whipping
   "The curtain whipped her face";
   - lash
    
3. Beat with or as if with a wire whisk
   "whip the eggs";
   - whisk
    
4. [informal] Defeat thoroughly
   "He whipped the floor with his opponents";
   - worst, mop up, rack up
    
5. [informal] Subject to harsh criticism
   "The Senator whipped the administration in his speech on Friday";
   - blister, scald, scorch [informal]
    
6. Thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash
   "The tall grass whipped in the wind"
    
7. Wind twine (or similar) around the end of a rope to prevent fraying
   "The sailor whipped the ends of the ropes to keep them neat and functional"
    
8. Suddenly move, pull or take very quickly
   "The bandit suddenly whipped out a pistol"
    
9. [informal] Run or move very quickly or hastily
   "She whipped into the yard";
   - dart, dash, scoot [informal], scud, flash, shoot
    
10. [Brit, informal] Take by theft
    "He was going to whip the phone someone had left behind";
    - hook [informal], snitch [informal], thieve, cop [informal], knock off [informal], glom [N. Amer, informal], boost [N. Amer, informal], pilfer, cabbage [archaic, informal], purloin [informal], pinch [Brit, informal], abstract [informal], snarf [N. Amer, informal], swipe [informal], sneak [informal], filch [informal], nobble [Brit, informal], lift [informal], nick [Brit, informal], snatch [informal], blag [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: whippings

Type of: assail, assault, attack, barrel [informal], beat, beat out, beat up, beating, belt [informal], belt along [informal], bucket [informal], bucket along [informal], combat, convulse, crush, defeat, drubbing, embroidery stitch, fight, fighting, hasten, hiding [informal], hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, jactitate [rare], lash out, pelt [informal], pelt along [informal], race, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], rocket [informal], round, rush, rush along, scramble, scrap, sewing stitch, shell [US], slash, speed, steal, step on it [informal], strike, thrash, thrash about, thrashing, thresh, thresh about, toss, travel rapidly, trounce, vanquish, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], wing [informal], work over [informal], zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal]

Encyclopedia: Whipping