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
“If you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned, wait till I whup Foreman’s behind,” he told David Frost.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2016
First I am going to reclaim your tiny island for my press-ups, and then I'm going to whup your asses at a sport immortalised by the pranksters of St Trinians.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2012
"When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul—though you still Sauls around on the side."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
“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
“They kilt us but they ain’t whupped us yet,” because we know that the work remains.
From Time ● Nov. 9, 2016
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
I tole them I was still tired as whupped pup.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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
“They weren’t used to seeing people like us go up there and put a whupping on,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
The prize was smaller because of a different primary calendar, but the whupping more thorough.
From Fox News ● Mar. 9, 2020
ARM has been whupping Intel in mobile chip design for years, and Intel has scrambled to catch up.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2016
It wasn’t Mr. Ryan who’d saved Roy from a whupping in the closet; it was Beatrice Leep.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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