Whipping in a sentence as a noun

Wow, the NSA has just become the whipping boy of the media.

He was a whipping boy in the videogame press because of it, but I think his other work is interesting.

The defense is whipping up hysteria about the prospect of 13 years in custody.

They don't know the bounds of their own ignorance because they think cs is just knowing a few programming languages, whipping up a few apps and websites.

The solution is to focus it, to try to get people to spend their 20% time pushing harder into deeper and more difficult areas instead of whipping out hacks.

Whipping in a sentence as an adjective

Normally this would be headline whoring by the predictable media, except that this is the BBC, and I thought Starbucks was made the whipping boy for tax evasion in the UK.

Without whipping out my Googlefu I would wager there are certainly more cases of people blowing the whistle and seeing their way of life crumble around them than there are who get protected by law.

It's the fact that he kept whipping up more drama about it and continued espousing "poor me" viewpoint about rape survivors bullying him, on a near-yearly basis, that really drove people away.

If LinkedIn, the article's whipping boy for bad password storage, had somebody with the brains and capability to purchase and integrate this multi-machine password storage system, LinkedIn would have had somebody with the capability of implementing a secure password hashing system like pbkdf or bcrypt or scrypt and wouldn't need to buy a mega priced security solution from RSA.

Whipping definitions

noun

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

See also: tanning flogging lashing flagellation

noun

a sound defeat

See also: thrashing walloping debacle drubbing slaughter trouncing

noun

a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally

See also: whipstitch whipstitching

noun

the act of overcoming or outdoing

See also: beating

adjective

smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines"

See also: snappy