WHIPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whipping mean? 

• WHIPPING (noun)
  The noun WHIPPING has 4 senses:

1. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

2. a sound defeat

3. a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally

4. the act of overcoming or outdoing

  Familiarity information: WHIPPING used as a noun is uncommon.

• WHIPPING (adjective)
  The adjective WHIPPING has 1 sense:

1. smart and fashionable

  Familiarity information: WHIPPING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHIPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

flagellation; flogging; lashing; tanning; whipping

Hypernyms ("whipping" is a kind of...):

beating; drubbing; lacing; licking; thrashing; trouncing; whacking (the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whipping"):

self-flagellation (self-punishment inflicted by whipping)

horsewhipping (the act of whipping with a horsewhip)

Derivation:

whip (beat severely with a whip or rod)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sound defeat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

debacle; drubbing; slaughter; thrashing; trouncing; walloping; whipping

Hypernyms ("whipping" is a kind of...):

defeat; licking (an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest)

Derivation:

whip (defeat thoroughly)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

whipping; whipstitch; whipstitching

Hypernyms ("whipping" is a kind of...):

embroidery stitch; sewing stitch (a stitch made with thread and a threaded sewing needle through fabric or leather)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whipping"):

overcast; overcasting (a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of overcoming or outdoing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

beating; whipping

Hypernyms ("whipping" is a kind of...):

combat; fight; fighting; scrap (the act of fighting; any contest or struggle)

• WHIPPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Smart and fashionable

Synonyms:

snappy; whipping

Context example:

some sharp and whipping lines

Similar:

spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)

 Context examples 

It orbits very close to its star, whipping around it every 18 hours.

(Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth, NASA)

“You should be out, whipping up the circulation like Mr. Enfield and me. (This is my cousin—Mr. Enfield—Dr. Jekyll.) Come now; get your hat and take a quick turn with us.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I count them not a fly, cried Hordle John; for who is the better for all their whipping and yowling?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The dwarf, at my entreaty, had no other punishment than a sound whipping.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then François’s lash descended, and Buck had the satisfaction of watching Spitz receive the worst whipping as yet administered to any of the teams.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He had attacked Johnson, been attacked by Leach, and had just finished whipping the pair of them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With nose serrulated by continuous spasms, hair bristling in recurrent waves, tongue whipping out like a red snake and whipping back again, ears flattened down, eyes gleaming hatred, lips wrinkled back, and fangs exposed and dripping, he could compel a pause on the part of almost any assailant.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We discovered that some of the freeze-dried fruit powders—especially strawberries—completely prevent the melt-down of dairy frozen desserts similar to ice cream made with whole milk, whole whipping cream, sugar and skim milk powder, Bilbao-Sainz said.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

Whipping up the little woman, he lifted her lightly to his lips, and then, taking his place in the ranks again, marched on with the laughing Company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But this good prince was so gracious as to forgive the poor page his whipping, upon promise that he would do so no more, without special orders.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)