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• present participle of whip.

whipping

American  

[hwip-ing, wip-] / ˈʰwɪp ɪŋ, ˈwɪp- /

noun

• whippings
  plural

1. a beating or flogging, especially one administered with a whip or the like in punishment.

2. a defeat, as in sports.

3. an arrangement of cord, twine, or the like, whipped or wound about a thing, as to bind parts together or prevent unraveling, as at the end of a rope.

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whipping British  

/ ˈwɪpɪŋ /

noun

1. a thrashing or beating with a whip or similar implement

2. cord or twine used for binding or lashing

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-whipping
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• whippings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of whipping

First recorded in 1530–40; whip + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

whipping whippings

“Those trucks were really whipping around. We dressed a couple of stunt Kennedys who were placed around them to make sure they were safe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

I considered whipping the miso into cold butter, making a compound butter to scrape over oven-hot sourdough before adding tomato slices and crystalline hunks of salt.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Near the French surfing hotspot of Le Grand Crohot, an AFP reporter saw violent gusts of wind whipping up flames as firefighting aircraft attempted to extinguish a rekindled fire.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Lawmakers refused to give up their whipping boy and ignored the committee’s recommendations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

He stood by the churchyard fence, intent on trying out the whipping powers of his fearsome tail upon a few rats that he had dubbed “the awkward squad.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The father of the student told BBC Pidgin he approved the whippings.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021

English officials jailed as many as 15,000 Quakers, and their missionaries faced whippings, exile, and even the death penalty in Massachusetts.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

James Bolton, interviewed by a white worker in Athens, Georgia, told this story about whippings:

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2016

So too with one of the workshop editions of “Ecce Homo”: Bosch presents a Christ who is bowed and lacerated with whippings and dripping with blood, whereas his follower presents Christ standing upright, seemingly unhurt.

From Economist ● Feb. 25, 2016

Aunt Loma’s heart was down on a level with Mr. Angus Tuttle’s, and he had caused me more whippings than I could count.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Related Words

• flogging
• licking
• pounding
• spanking
• thrashing
• trouncing