whops
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present tense formof whop (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
whopverb (used with object)to strike forcibly.
Example Sentences
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But as a show it often whops the emotions, as a spectacle often tingles the blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Gallet's "whops" bade fair to change the scientific world's concept of radar and its potential.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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