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whiplash
[ hwip-lash, wip- ]
noun
- Also whiplash injury. a neck injury caused by a sudden jerking backward, forward, or both, of the head:
Whiplash resulted when their car was struck from behind.
- Also called whiplash curve. a connected series of reverse curves of more or less elliptical form, used as a major design motif in the Art Nouveau style.
verb (used with object)
- to beat, hit, throw, etc., with or as if with a whiplash.
- to affect adversely, as by a sudden change:
new taxes whiplashing corporate earnings.
whiplash
/ ˈwɪpˌlæʃ /
Word History and Origins
Origin of whiplash1
Example Sentences
Teller will reteam with his Whiplash director Chazelle on La La Land, which starts shooting in the spring.
Whiplash was shot in just 19 days and then edited in 10 weeks to make Sundance.
We have Damien Chazelle at the beginning of his career with Whiplash.
For Peggy, this season was all about professional success and romantic whiplash.
Much of the action in Whiplash requires serious suspension of disbelief.
Peabody stared, and a streak of crimson leaped into his cheek as if a whiplash had been laid across it.
Anne would have infinitely preferred a whipping to this punishment under which her sensitive spirit quivered as from a whiplash.
Quick as a flash he dealt the other a blow on the cheek, an open-handed blow that stung like a whiplash.
No curses greeted them; no whiplash cut into them; no strong arm jerked them over the harness.
The heavy plaits of the whiplash curled round the legs of the trader, and he writhed.
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