whip
/hwɪp/, /wɪp/ v [T] (-pp-) (STRAP)Definition
› to hit a person with a whip, esp. for punishment, or to hit an animal with a whip in order to control it or make it move more quickly: To train them, owners often whip their pit bulls. fig. Dallas whipped Buffalo 52 to 17 (= beat them by this score).
(Definition of whip v (STRAP) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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