whip
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noun
1. a strip of leather or length of cord fastened to a handle, used for flogging or beating a person or for urging on an animal.
むち
a blow with a whip or similar implement.
むち打ち
used to refer to something causing pain or acting as a stimulus to action:
e.g. councils are attempting to find new sites under the whip of a powerful agency
e.g. the governor cracked the whip in the city.
2. an official of a political party appointed to maintain discipline among its members in Congress or Parliament, especially so as to ensure attendance and voting in debates.
〘政〙 (米国･英国の)院内幹事〘議会で自党議員に出席と党議に従った投票を促す〙
British a written notice from a political party official requesting attendance for voting.
｟英｠ (議員への)登院命令(書)(→ three-line whip)
(the whip) British party membership of a Member of Parliament or other elected body:
e.g. he asked for the whip to be withdrawn from them.
3. a dessert consisting of cream or eggs beaten into a light fluffy mass with fruit, chocolate, or other ingredients.
｟英｠ 〖材料では可算〗ホイップ〘泡立てた卵白やクリームを用いたデザート〙
a utensil such as a whisk or an eggbeater for beating cream, eggs, or other food.
4. short for whipper-in.
(狩りの)猟犬係
5. a slender, unbranched shoot or plant.
6. with modifier North American a scythe for cutting specified crops:
e.g. a grass whip.
7. a rope-and-pulley hoisting apparatus.
〘海〙 (荷物を引き上げる)滑車装置
8. US informal a car:
e.g. I just got new wheels for my whip.
verb (whips, whipping, whipped) with object
1. beat (a person or animal) with a whip or similar instrument, especially as a punishment or to urge them on.
〈人･動物など〉をむちで打つ; …をせっかんする; …をむち打って «…の状態に» する «into» ; …をむち打って駆り立てる(on, up)
(of a flexible object or rain or wind) strike or beat violently:
｟文｠ 〈風･雨･枝などが〉…を激しく打つ; 〖～ A＋副詞〗 A〈物〉をたたきつける (!〖副詞〗は場所･運動などの表現)
e.g. the wind whipped their faces
｟文｠ ; 〖～＋副詞〗 〈風･雨･枝などが〉激しく打つ, たたきつける (!〖副詞〗は場所･運動などの表現) ; 〈旗･髪などが〉激しくはためく［なびく］
e.g. no object : ferns and brambles whipped at him.
informal (of a player or team) defeat (a person or team) heavily in a sporting contest.
｟くだけて｠ 〈相手など〉を打ち負かす
2. no object, with adverbial of direction move fast or suddenly in a specified direction:
〖～＋副詞〗 〈人･物が〉すばやく［突然］動く (!〖副詞〗は場所･運動などの表現)
e.g. I whipped around the corner.
with object and adverbial of direction take out or move (something) fast or suddenly:
〖～ A＋副詞〗 A〈物〉をすばやく［突然］動かす; ひったくる (!〖副詞〗は運動･方向などの表現)
e.g. he whipped out his revolver and shot him.
3. beat (cream, eggs, or other food) into a froth.
〈クリーム･卵白など〉を手早く泡立てる(up)
4. bind (something) with spirally wound twine.
〈網の端など〉を糸［ひも］で巻いてほぐれないようにする; 〈縁（へり）〉をかがる, まつる
sew or gather (something) with overcast stitches.
PHRASES
the whip hand
a position of power or control over someone:
e.g. he had the whip hand over other members of the cabinet.
whip someone's ass
see bust someone's ass2.
PHRASAL VERBS
whip in
act as whipper-in.
whip someone into
urge or rouse someone into (a specified state or position):
e.g. the radio host whipped his listeners into a frenzy
e.g. the city had been whipped into shape.
whip someone up
deliberately excite someone into having a strong feeling or reaction:
e.g. Dad had managed to whip himself up into a fantastic rage.
whip something up
1. cause water, sand, etc., to rise up and be flung about in a violent manner:
e.g. the sea was whipped up by a force-nine gale.
stimulate a particular feeling in someone:
e.g. we tried hard to whip up interest in the products.
2. make or prepare something, typically something to eat, very quickly.
whip something out (or whip something off)
write something hurriedly:
e.g. you'll find the software ideal for whipping out memos and proposals.
DERIVATIVES
whiplike adjective
whipper noun
ORIGIN
Middle English: probably from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch wippen ‘swing, leap, dance’, from a Germanic base meaning ‘move quickly’. The noun is partly from the verb, reinforced by Middle Low German wippe ‘quick movement’.