whip

/hwɪp/, /wɪp/ v [always + adv/prep] (-pp-) (MOVE QUICKLY)

Definition

› to bring or take (something) quickly, or to move quickly: [M] They whipped my plate away before I’d even finished. [M] Bill whipped out his harmonica. [I] The wind whipped around the corner of the building.

(Definition of whip v (MOVE QUICKLY) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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whip n STRAP
whip someone or something into something idiom
whip something up phrasal verb MAKE SOMETHING
whip up someone/something phrasal verb CAUSE EMOTION
whip v BEAT FOOD
whip v MOVE QUICKLY
whip v STRAP
whiplash n
whipping boy n
whipping n STRAP
whir v

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