flogger
Americannoun
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floggers
plural
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a person who beats another with a whip or stick, especially as punishment.
Each of the detained offenders received ten strokes of a rattan cane from a masked and hooded flogger.
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a whip used to beat a partner for mutual sexual gratification.
Many dominants are attached to a favorite flogger or pair of restraints.
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a person who beats a partner for mutual sexual gratification.
Since some floggers are rougher than others, give judicious consideration to which of you is to flog the other.
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Slang. a person who promotes, advertises, or sells something, especially vigorously or aggressively.
These stickers can be used to keep floggers from coming to your door to cajole and bully you into signing up for bad deals.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of flogger
First recorded in 1700–10; flog ( def. ) + -er 1 ( def. )
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Explaining a flogger whip to my children would be easier than explaining how such a poor quality book made it into print having clearly never been anywhere near an editor.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2012
Nuvolari, now 60 and retired, was "hard on his mounts, a great flogger of automobiles, a car killer."
From Time Magazine Archive
If the accused flogger is shocked or indignant at the idea I should be inclined to think that the accusation was a just one.
From A Dominie in Doubt by Alexander Sutherland Neill
Mr. Haddon seconded the hard-hearted Sir William Petre, and adduced as an evidence that the best schoolmaster then in England was the hardest flogger.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
Mr. Haddon seconded the hard-hearted Sir William Petre, and adduced, as an evidence, that the best schoolmaster then in England was the hardest flogger.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
The dead horse has been flogged, and the bloggers have flogged the floggers, so it’s time to move on to a more interesting subject: Zen and the Art of Packers Self-Destruction.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2010
When the floggers of Correspondent William Stephens learned of their expulsion they went to Governor Murray for a late night conference.
From Time Magazine Archive
He adds another $500 reward to Governor Walker's $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the leader of the floggers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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