WHIP | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of whip in English whipnoun uk /wɪp/ us /wɪp/

whip noun (DEVICE FOR HITTING)

Add to word list Add to word list [ C ] a piece of leather or rope that is fastened to a stick, used for hitting animals or people: She lashed the horses mercilessly with her long whip. The lion-tamer cracked his whip.   emregologlu/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Horse riding

• barrel racing
• blinker
• break someone in phrasal verb
• bronc
• bucking bronco
• capriole
• curry
• horsemanship
• puissance
• rein
• rein something in phrasal verb
• reschool
• reshoe
• riding habit
• rodeo
• saddle
• saddlery
• stirrup
• tack
• three-day eventing

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Hand weapons

whip noun (POLITICS)

[ C ] (in many elected political systems) a member of a political party in a parliament or in the legislature whose job is to make certain that other party members are present at voting time and also to make certain that they vote in a particular way: Hargreaves is the MP who got into trouble with his party's chief whip for opposing the tax reform. He is seen as a future party whip. [ C ] in British politics, a written order that party members must be present in parliament when there is to be an important vote, or that they must vote in a particular way: In 1970 he defied a three-line (= the most urgent) whip against EC membership.  the whip in British politics, the right of someone elected to a parliament to vote as an official member of a particular political party: Senior figures in the Labour Party said that they intend to withdraw the whip from the MP as the first step to him being thrown out of the party. He was one of the anti-European Tory MPs who lost the whip under Prime Minister John Major. She resigned the party whip in protest at the proposed legislation. International relations: United States politics & government

• anti-democrat
• anti-Republican
• battleground state
• bicameral
• G-man
• gubernatorial
• homeland security
• House Committee
• republican
• roll call vote
• secret service
• secretary
• the Articles of Confederation
• the GOP
• the Republican Party
• the White House
• VA
• vote-o-rama
• voting district
• wheeling

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UK politics: legislation & law-making

whip noun (SWEET FOOD)

[ C or U ] UK a sweet food made from cream or beaten egg mixed together with fruit   Ekaterina Smirnova/Moment/GettyImages Puddings, desserts & ices

• affogato
• baked Alaska
• baklava
• banana split
• bananas Foster
• croquembouche
• crumble
• crème pâtissière
• crémeux
• dessert
• kugel
• lolly
• mochi
• Moose Tracks
• mousseline
• sorbet
• soufflé
• spotted dick
• spumoni
• summer pudding

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whip noun (CAR)

[ C ] slang a car: He got a new whip. Cars

• 4×4
• all-wheel drive
• artic
• automobile
• beach buggy
• beetle
• black cab
• cab
• classic car
• hearse
• hotrod
• marque
• Mk
• non-automotive
• off-road
• pace car
• passenger car
• race car
• runabout
• stretch limousine

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Idiom

have/hold the whip hand whipverb uk /wɪp/ us /wɪp/ -pp-

whip verb (DO QUICKLY)

[ T usually + adv/prep ] to bring or take something quickly: She whipped a handkerchief out of her pocket and wiped his face. He whipped the covers off the bed. I was going to pay but before I knew it he'd whipped out his credit card. They whipped my plate away before I'd even finished. [ I or T, + adv/prep ] literary to (cause something to) move quickly and forcefully: The wind whipped across the half-frozen lake. A fierce, freezing wind whipped torrential rain into their faces. Transferring and transporting objects

• air freight
• bearer
• blockade runner
• borne
• bring
• carry
• collect
• deliver
• freight train
• goods train
• haulage
• haulier
• heft
• import
• transplantation
• turnaround
• turnaround time
• uplift
• virement
• wheel

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Making short, sudden movements

whip verb (BEAT FOOD)

[ T ] to beat food, especially cream, with a special piece of equipment in order to make it thick and firm: Could you whip the cream for me? Try whipping a little brandy or other liqueur into the cream. Top with whipped cream and a sprinkle of sugar. Preparing food

• batch cooking
• biga
• boil
• breadmaking
• butter
• buttered
• clarify
• garnish
• gastronomic
• gastronomically
• glaze
• glazed
• purée
• put something on ice
• re-season
• recipe
• rehydrate
• tailgate
• toss
• zap

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whip verb (HIT)

[ T ] to hit a person or animal with a whip: I don't like the way the drivers whip their horses. Punishing by causing pain

• birch
• cane
• caning
• cat-o'-nine-tails
• corporal punishment
• flagellate
• lynch
• lynch law
• lynching
• mortification
• mortification of the flesh idiom
• paddle
• smack
• spanking
• tar
• the third degree idiom
• thrashing
• thumbscrew
• waterboard
• waterboarding

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whip verb (DEFEAT)

[ T ] informal to defeat a person or a team in a competition, especially in a sport: They beat us last time, but we whipped them in a rematch. He whipped him in their fight two years ago. Winning and defeating

• air supremacy
• annihilate
• annihilation
• bank
• be gunning for someone idiom
• blowout
• massacre
• medal
• mincemeat
• moral victory
• move/go/close in for the kill idiom
• scrape
• stomp
• stomp on someone/something phrasal verb
• sweep the board idiom
• take someone down phrasal verb
• take something apart phrasal verb
• thrash
• trouser
• vanquish

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whip verb (POLITICS)

[ T ] (of a whip of a political party) to make certain that other party members are present in a parliament, etc. to vote on a particular thing or to make certain that they vote in a particular way: Labour Party members were whipped to support the Bill.

• Conservative MPs were whipped to vote for an extension to the lockdown.

UK politics: legislation & law-making

• abolish
• abrogate
• abrogation
• amendatory
• amendment
• constitutionally
• enact
• FMQs
• framer
• gold plate
• Green Paper
• guillotine
• outlaw
• parliamentarian
• penal reform
• PMQs
• pocket veto
• promulgate
• wash (something) up phrasal verb
• White Paper

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whip verb (STEAL)

[ T ] UK old-fashioned informal to steal something Stealing

• abscond
• abscond with someone/something
• aggravated burglary
• anti-burglar
• anti-burglary
• eavesdrop
• housebreaking
• jemmy
• jimmy
• job
• joyride
• kleptomania
• piracy
• piratical
• piratically
• plunder
• poach
• rustle
• snaffle
• snarf

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Phrasal verbs

whip someone into something whip something up (Definition of whip from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

whip | American Dictionary

whipnoun [ C ] us /hwɪp, wɪp/

whip noun [C] (STRAP)

Add to word list Add to word list a piece of leather or rope fastened to a stick, used to train and control animals or, esp. in the past, to hit people: The trainer cracked his whip, and the lions sat in a circle.

whip noun [C] (POLITICS)

an elected representative of a political party in a legislature whose job is to gather support from other legislators (= law makers) for particular legislation and to encourage them to vote the way their party wants them to whipverb us /hwɪp, wɪp/ -pp-

whip verb (MOVE QUICKLY)

[ always + adv/prep ] 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.

whip verb (BEAT FOOD)

[ T ] to beat cream, eggs, potatoes, etc., with a special utensil in order to make it thick and soft: I still need to whip the cream for the pie.

whip verb (STRAP)

[ T ] 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).

Idiom

whip someone or something into something

Phrasal verbs

whip something up whip up someone/something (Definition of whip from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of whip?

Translations of whip

in Chinese (Traditional) 擊打的器具, 鞭子，皮鞭, 政治… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 击打的器具, 鞭子，皮鞭, 政治… See more in Spanish látigo, jefe de filas, orden de voto… See more in Portuguese chicote, açoite, líder da bancada… See more in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian in Italian むち, ~をむちで打つ, （卵やクリーム）をホイップする… See more kırbaç, kamçı, kırbaçlamak… See more fouet [masculine], fouetter, battre à plates coutures… See more fuet, fuetejar, muntar… See more zweep, whip, zwepen… See more bič, náhončí, (z)bičovat… See more pisk, indpisker, piske… See more cambuk, gembong partai, mencambuk… See more แส้, ผู้ควบคุมเสียงสมาชิกพรรคการเมือง, หวด… See more roi da, nghị viên phụ trách tổ chức, quất bằng roi… See more bicz, bat, smagać… See more piska, inpiskare, vispa… See more cambuk, ahli parlimen yang dilantik untuk menjaga disiplin ahli parlimennya, menyebat… See more die Peitsche, der Einpeitscher / die Einpeitscherin, (aus)peitschen… See more pisk [masculine], piske, banke… See more 채찍, 채찍질하다, 휘저어서 거품을 내다… See more батіг, канчук, парламентський організатор партії… See more frusta, frustare, frullare… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of whip

• leg whip
• chief whip
• pistol-whip
• whip-round
• whip-smart
• three-line whip
• whip something up phrasal verb

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• whip something up phrasal verb
• whip up someone/something phrasal verb
• whip someone into something phrasal verb

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• whip someone or something into something idiom
• crack the whip idiom
• have/hold the whip hand idiom
• whip something/someone into shape idiom
• a fair crack of the whip idiom
• whip something/someone into shape, at knock/lick something/someone into shape idiom
• a fair crack of the whip, at a fair shake idiom

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• English   
  • Noun 
    • whip (DEVICE FOR HITTING)
    • whip (POLITICS)
    • the whip
    • whip (SWEET FOOD)
    • whip (CAR)
  • Verb 
    • whip (DO QUICKLY)
    • whip (BEAT FOOD)
    • whip (HIT)
    • whip (DEFEAT)
    • whip (POLITICS)
    • whip (STEAL)
• American   
  • Noun 
    • whip (STRAP)
    • whip (POLITICS)
  • Verb 
    • whip (MOVE QUICKLY)
    • whip (BEAT FOOD)
    • whip (STRAP)

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