How do you use the word "whip" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "whip": I'm sure you'll whip us up something really good. If you eat any cake, I'll whip you.

Whip Meaning

/ˈwɪp/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.

Sentence Examples

I'm sure you'll whip us up something really good.

If you eat any cake, I'll whip you.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

worst strap slash

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The chef used a wire whisk to ____ the cream into stiff peaks.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The chef used a metal tool to ____ the cream until it was thick and several very fluffy for the dessert tonight today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wippōną (“to move back and forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to shake; to swing”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)). The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound of a whip; compare the same development in whisk and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh. The political senses are from whipper-in (“huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering”), from 18th-century hunting terminology.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself." — 1832, The Atheneum, volume 31, page 493:

"At half-past ten, Tom Moody, Sir Huddlestone Fuddlestone's huntsman, was seen trotting up the avenue, followed by the noble pack of hounds in a compact body—the rear being brought up by the two whips clad in stained scarlet frocks—light hard-featured lads on well-bred lean horses, possessing marvellous dexterity in casting the points of their long heavy whips at the thinnest part of any dog's skin who dares to straggle from the main body […]" — 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

"From the far side of the wood came the long shrill screech […] which signifies that one of the whips has viewed the fox quitting the covert." — 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 27:

"The Conservative deputy chief whip has resigned after admitting he had “embarrassed myself and other people” following reports that he drunkenly groped two men at a private club. Chris Pincher wrote to Boris Johnson saying he was standing down after drinking too much. However, he did not address the allegations that he was reported to the whips by Conservative MPs who had witnessed his behaviour towards two men at the Carlton Club in Piccadilly." — 2022 June 30, “Tory deputy chief whip resigns after ‘drunkenly groping two men’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2022:

"Therefore, welcome new Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper, a man about whom even my esteemed political journalist friends know little - apart from the fact he was once Chief Whip, a job that requires knowing about every Tory MP's misdemeanours." — 2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 44:

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