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1. Smart and fashionable
   "some sharp and whipping lines";
   - snappy [informal]

1. Beating with a whip, strap or rope as a form of punishment
   - tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation
    
2. A sound defeat
   - thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, hammering [informal], pasting [informal], débâcle, smackdown [N. Amer, informal], beatdown [N. Amer]
    
3. A sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
   - whipstitch, whipstitching
    
4. The act of overcoming or outdoing
   - beating

1. Beat severely with a whip or rod
   "The teacher often whipped the students";
   - flog, welt, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. [informal] Defeat thoroughly
   "He whipped the floor with his opponents";
   - worst, mop up, rack up
    
3. Thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash
   "The tall grass whipped in the wind"
    
4. Strike as if by whipping
   "The curtain whipped her face";
   - lash
    
5. (cooking) Beat with or as if with a wire whisk
   "whip the eggs";
   - whisk
    
6. [informal] Subject to harsh criticism
   "The Senator whipped the administration in his speech on Friday";
   - blister, scald, scorch
    
7. Wind twine (or similar) around the end of a rope to prevent fraying
    
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
    - hook [informal], snitch [informal], thieve, cop [informal], knock off [informal], glom [N. Amer, informal], pilfer, cabbage [informal], purloin, pinch [Brit, informal], abstract, snarf [N. Amer, informal], swipe [informal], sneak [informal], filch [informal], nobble [Brit, informal], lift, nick [Brit, informal], snatch [informal], blag [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: whippings

See also: spirited

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, lacing, lash out, licking, pelt [informal], pelt along [informal], race, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], rocket [informal], round, rush, rush along, scramble, scrap, sewing stitch, shell, slash, snipe, speed, steal, step on it [informal], strike, thrash, thrash about, thrashing, thresh, thresh about, toss, travel rapidly, trounce, trouncing, vanquish, whacking, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], wing [informal], work over, zip [informal], zoom, zoom along

Encyclopedia: Whipping