whip

/wɪp/ verb (present participle whipping, past tense and past participle whipped)

Definition

HIT [T] › to hit a person or animal with a whip

FOOD [T] › to make a food such as cream more solid by mixing it hard with a kitchen tool

whip (sth) away/off/out, etc informal › to move or make something move in a fast, sudden way: She opened the bag and whipped out her camera.

(Definition of whip verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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