Whip v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whipped p. pr. & vb. n. Whipping.]
 1. To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
 2. To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
 3. To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
    Who, for false quantities, was whipped at school.   --Dryden.
 4. To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
    They would whip me with their fine wits.   --Shak.
 5. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
 6. To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
 7. To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.  [Slang, U. S.]
 8. To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
    Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.   --Moxon.
 9. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
    In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.   --Gay.
 10. To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
    She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.   --L'Estrange.
    He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.   --Walpole.
 11. Naut. (a) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.  (b) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
 12. To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
    Whipping their rough surface for a trout.   --Emerson.
 To whip in, to drive in, or keep from scattering, as hounds in a hurt; hence, to collect, or to keep together, as member of a party, or the like.
 To whip the cat. (a) To practice extreme parsimony. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby. (b) To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do. [Prov. & U. S.]