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Meaning:
Noun:
- A lash: an object that is pliant and flexible: commonly a rod; (cane or rattan) or plaited or braided (commonly leather ) rope or thong used to create a sharp "crack" sound for encouraging, directing or herding animals
- A member of a policies in votes.
- nautical A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
- same instrument used to strike a person or animal for punishment in corporal punishment or torture.
- (slang/African American Vernacular English) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
- Whipped cream.
Source: Wiktionary
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Verb:
- intransitive To move very fast.
- intransitive To snap back and forth like a whip.
- transitive By extension, to hit with any flexible object.
- nautical To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling
- transitive To defeat.
- transitive To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- transitive To hit with a whip.
- transitive To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
- transitive To throw an object at a high velocity (Typically used in New England).
- transitive To urge into action. (''He whipped the department into shape.'')
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