WHOP (whopped, whopping)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: whopped    , whopping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does whop mean? 

• WHOP (verb)
  The verb WHOP has 2 senses:

1. hit hard

2. hit hard

  Familiarity information: WHOP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHOP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they whop    ... he / she / it whops   
Past simple: whopped   
Past participle: whopped   
-ing form: whopping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hit hard

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

wallop; whack; wham; whop

Context example:

The teacher whacked the boy

Hypernyms (to "whop" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hit hard

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bash; bonk; bop; sock; whap; whop

Hypernyms (to "whop" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

His answer was not cheering to my spirits, for it consisted of two dismal words, “With whopping.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the sleep-deprived mouse brains, the astrocytes were found to be active across 8.4 percent of the synapses, and in the chronically sleep-deprived mice, a whopping 13.5 percent of their synapses showed astrocyte activity.

(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was assembled from 82 snapshots representing a whopping 16.2 hours of Spitzer observing time.

(The 'Serpent' star-forming cloud hatches new stars, NASA)