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whops

  • present tense form
    of whop (3rd person singular).
    whop
    verb (used with object)
    to strike forcibly.

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But as a show it often whops the emotions, as a spectacle often tingles the blood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gallet's "whops" bade fair to change the scientific world's concept of radar and its potential.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Water Wheele 22ft heigh, wth a Shaft whereon 7 whops, 2 Gudgions and 2 brasses, built about the same tyme, in repaire, valued at 20lb. 

From The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

The Water Wheele 22 feet heigh, wth a Shaft whereon 7 whops, 2 Gudgions and 2 brasses, built about the same tyme, in repaire, valued at 20lb. 

From Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

It's that thing up in her room,—that pious thing that whops over.

From We Girls: a Home Story by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney