whip
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- (countable) A whip is a long, thin leather instrument. A person uses it, with very quick motion, to give pain. A person uses it on a horse or another person as punishment.
- (countable) (politics) A whip is a member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
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- (transitive) If you whip something, you hit it with a whip.
- Jockeys whip horses to make them go faster.