Talk:whip

RFC discussion: February 2017
Current senses #7 and #12 are probably the same, with variance based on cultural/idiomatic specificity. - Amgine/t&middot;e 22:42, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

What food or drink is this "whip"?
Is it whipped cream, or is it some other sense we are missing? Equinox ◑ 20:00, 24 August 2017 (UTC)


 * 1994, Grace Livingston Hill, The City of Fire (page 29)
 * It was not in his unyellow soul to go back on his word without refunding the money, and a dollar of it was already spent to the Chinese fund, to say nothing of sundaes and sodas and whips.

RFD discussion: February–November 2017
As pointed out by, sense #12 is a subset of sense #7. The context label may need to be expanded. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 07:11, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
 * For reference:
 * Sense 12: "(informal, slang) Car; automobile".
 * Sense 7: "(African American Vernacular) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation."
 * I agree with merging the two, into something simplified, e.g. "A personal motor vehicle, whether a car or a motorcycle." --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:46, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Sense 12 deleted. How to simplify sense 7 is a matter for editors working on that entry. bd2412 T 23:00, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

(U.S.) long flexible branch
(U.S.): a long, slender, flexible branch of some trees such as willows furniture made of willow whips Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:09, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Etymology information from the entry for "whipping boy"
The following was previously in the etymology for :

Middle English wippen "flap violently", from Proto-Germanic wipp-, from Proto-Indo-European wib- "move quickly".

I don't know myself how accurate or inaccurate it is, but I thought it would be worth archiving here in case it is accurate in some way. &mdash;The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 06:54, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

remove/withdraw the whip
(UK politics) Does this refer to the document? That is, if you're an MP and have "the whip removed", you don't receive this document and are therefore unable to vote? (example use) Jberkel 18:36, 19 October 2022 (UTC)