beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
whipping
How to use whipping in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for whipping.
Editorial note
Wow, the NSA has just become the whipping boy of the media.
Quick take
beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of whipping gathered in one view.
a sound defeat
a sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for whipping.
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
Example sentences
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.
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.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use whipping in a sentence?
Wow, the NSA has just become the whipping boy of the media.
What does whipping mean?
beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
What part of speech is whipping?
whipping is commonly used as noun, adjective.