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# whip

«whip» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long thin rope or strip of leather with a handle, used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a whip, whips); verb (whip, whips, whipped, whipping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A whip is a long thin rope or strip of leather with a handle, used to hit animals or, in the past, people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#m1)

2) To whip means to hit with a whip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#m2)

3) To whip cream or eggs means to beat them fast until they are thick and fluffy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#m3)

4) To whip means to move or take something very fast: «She whipped out her phone.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#m4)

5) (politics) A whip is a person in parliament who makes sure members of their party vote. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#m5)

6) (slang, US) A whip can mean a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons, whipped cream; in history, enslaved people and convicts were whipped as cruel punishment. In stories, a horse rider cracks a whip. In UK politics, «chief whip». Phrases: «whip up» (make quickly), «whip round» (UK, collect money from a group).

### examples

- Whip the cream until it is stiff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#x1)
- He whipped round to see who was there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#x2)
- The circus trainer cracked his whip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#x3)
- Let's have a whip-round for the teacher's present. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#x4)
- Mum whipped up a quick lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#x5)
- Prisoners were whipped in the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#x6)
- The whip lay on his lap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/#x7)

### note

Past: whipped (double p). «Whipped cream» not «whip cream» in UK. Whipping people is now illegal in most countries.

### In the corpora

- [Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/11/)
- [A whip is the person in a party who tries to make sure its members vote the party way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/15/)
- [smetAna is sour cream, put on borshch, vareNYky and pancakes; it is sour, not sweet like whipped cream.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/11-the-flag-and-whats-cooking/9/)
- [Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.35/)
- [A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.752/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «whip» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/whip/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.