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whippet
[ whip-it, wip- ]
noun
- one of a breed of small, swift dogs resembling a greyhound, used for hunting rabbits and for racing.
- Also called whippet tank. a fast, light tank used by the British in World War I.
whippet
/ ˈwɪpɪt /
noun
- a small slender breed of dog similar to a greyhound in appearance
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And she cared for him, along with a whippet named Jason, until she died at age 74 in 1995.
Now the score is settled, the Big Dog can finally accept that the whippet is the winner.
A whippet tank crunched over the wreck and covered the group with its multiple pom-poms.
I was dropping asleep when a rabbit rushed under the blanket, all of a shiver, and a whippet dog after it.
She was a sea whippet, and prior to the war her bowsprit had nosed into all the famed harbours of the seven seas.
He scribbled a note on the back of a sales slip and left it at Miss Whippet's post by the stocking counter.
Little Miss Whippet, although she was fast at typewriting, was hard put to it to keep up with his correspondence.
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