whup
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of whup
1890–95; originally Scots form of whip
Example Sentences
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"They pitched a heck of a game. I think it was mandatory to want to go out and whup them."
From Fox News ● Aug. 26, 2021
Several years after Sam “Bam” Cunningham helped an integrated USC football team whup an all-white Alabama team in 1970, Cunningham traveled to Montgomery, Ala., for a golf tournament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2016
He moves like a slow mummy, and there ain’t no mummy gonna whup the great Muhammad Ali.
From Time ● Jun. 4, 2016
He promoted that fight by saying: “You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned. Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2016
She was a southpaw for whupping, and she had arthritis in that elbow, so while she could still whup, it didn’t make much of an impression.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
“They whupped us up front,” Bruins backfield coach Ron Hudson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
He was a 72-year-old white male moderate from a small town at a moment when Democrats were fixated on how they got whupped so badly in rural areas.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2019
In the 1987 documentary “Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll,” Lewis says of him, “We got in a fight—that’s when we become friends. He whupped my butt.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 18, 2016
Then again, life and career were dead-serious to Rivers, for whom every challenger, including the younger female comics, deserved to be whupped in a cage match.
From Time ● Sep. 4, 2014
My opponent whupped me in all four corners of the ring.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
“This dress is whupping me,” one could be heard complaining in a closed stall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
A 2012 NJ.com profile described his younger self as “a skinny kid who acted tough but hid behind a mom who protected him by whupping on the mothers of the bullies who picked on him.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2021
The prize was smaller because of a different primary calendar, but the whupping more thorough.
From Fox News ● Mar. 9, 2020
Or, they take another whupping, show the world what they're really made of and then slink off and go home, never to be heard from again in any discussion of teams that matter.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2012
She was a southpaw for whupping, and she had arthritis in that elbow, so while she could still whup, it didn’t make much of an impression.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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