whip-cracker

[ hwip-krak-er, wip- ]

noun

1. a person who cracks a whip.
2. a person who exerts authority, especially excessively or ostentatiously.

Example Sentences

We also want to thank Clay Eals for his yeomanly work as editor-in-chief and general whip-cracker.

From Seattle Times

The film is a textured, visceral collection of 62 shorts capturing moments during the three-week journey: Beck rocking the stage at a remote desert drive-in; guests leaping up and down on a pillowy bed inside artist Urs Fischer's fog-filled, all-white yurt; whip-cracker and performance artist Chris Camp leading a procession of musicians banging drums through L.A.’s Union Station.

From Los Angeles Times

He is no Harry Hopkins, intense and tough as a hatchet, who served F.D.R. as combination chief of staff and whip-cracker.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suddenly Michael realized that his father had been at Christ Church; and this tall fair whip-cracker served for him as the symbol of his father.

From Project Gutenberg

The rope played whip-cracker with me for some time and before reach174ing the top I was covered with bruises.

From Project Gutenberg