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  • noun Plural form of whip.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whip.

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Examples

  • Working with a simple but disturbing premise, the filmmakers build tension masterfully, creating an oppressive atmosphere that vanishes as soon as the villain whips out his instruments of torture.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008

  • Throw in Irish whips, high-flying moves off the top rope, strikes and ground attacks, and the fighting is actually quite deep.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • There are even party officials - "whips" - whose entire position is to facilitate the application of those carrots and sticks.

    Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog 2009

  • There are even party officials - "whips" - whose entire position is to facilitate the application of those carrots and sticks.

    Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog 2008

  • I was already seeing us women in a whirling estrogen maelstrom, Perils of Pauline – like, greenbacks flying madly about our heads as though in a wind tunnel — I pictured us like in that scene in Thelma and Louise, where the money whips from a tearful Geena Davis’s hands right out the car window.

    Cheap Thrills 2006

  • I was already seeing us women in a whirling estrogen maelstrom, Perils of Pauline – like, greenbacks flying madly about our heads as though in a wind tunnel — I pictured us like in that scene in Thelma and Louise, where the money whips from a tearful Geena Davis’s hands right out the car window.

    Cheap Thrills 2006

  • I was already seeing us women in a whirling estrogen maelstrom, Perils of Pauline – like, greenbacks flying madly about our heads as though in a wind tunnel — I pictured us like in that scene in Thelma and Louise, where the money whips from a tearful Geena Davis’s hands right out the car window.

    Cheap Thrills 2006

  • Is this because for some bicycles are known as whips?

    Nice Assist: Worth its Weight in Milk BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Labour whips are therefore in a state of abject panic at the thought of this going public but the whiffs of smoke are already airborne, they are chasing phantoms with butterfly nets.

    If you can keep your head ..... Newmania 2007

  • Labour whips are therefore in a state of abject panic at the thought of this going public but the whiffs of smoke are already airborne, they are chasing phantoms with butterfly nets.

    Archive 2007-08-26 Newmania 2007

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