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whipped adjective [ wɪpt ]

• having been flogged or beaten with a whip.
• "a whipped dog"
• (of cream, eggs, or other food) beaten into a froth.

whip verb

• beat (a person or animal) with a whip or similar instrument, especially as a punishment or to urge them on.
• "Lewis whipped the boy twenty times"
Similar: flog, scourge, flagellate, lash, birch, switch, tan, strap, belt, cane, thrash, beat, leather, tan/whip someone's hide, give someone a hiding,
• move fast or suddenly in a specified direction.
• "he whipped round to face them"
Similar: 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, 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, bomb, go like the clappers, bucket, put one's foot down, leg it, wheech, boogie, hightail it, clip, barrel, get the lead out, cut along, fleet, post, hie, haste, drag/tear/haul ass,
Opposite: dawdle,
• beat (cream, eggs, or other food) into a froth.
Similar: whisk, beat, mix, stir,
• steal (something).
• "the escaper had whipped his overcoat"
Similar: steal, purloin, thieve, take, take for oneself, help oneself to, loot, pilfer, abscond with, run off with, appropriate, abstract, carry off, shoplift, embezzle, misappropriate, walk off/away with, run away/off with, rob, swipe, nab, rip off, lift, liberate, filch, snaffle, snitch, souvenir, nick, pinch, half-inch, knock off, nobble, bone, scrump, blag, heist, glom, snavel, clifty, tief, crib, hook, peculate, defalcate, walk, go walkies,
• bind (something) with spirally wound twine.
• "the side linings are whipped or hemmed"
Origin: Middle English: probably from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch wippen ‘swing, leap, dance’, from a Germanic base meaning ‘move quickly’. The noun is partly from the verb, reinforced by Middle Low German wippe ‘quick movement’.


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