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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e.g. he asked for the whip to be withdrawn from them.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.

a position of power or control over someone:

e.g. he had the whip hand over other members of the cabinet.

see bust someone's ass2.

act as whipper-in.

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.

deliberately excite someone into having a strong feeling or reaction:

e.g. Dad had managed to whip himself up into a fantastic rage.

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.

write something hurriedly:

e.g. you'll find the software ideal for whipping out memos and proposals.

whiplike adjective

whipper noun

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’.