whip-cracker
Americannoun
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a person who cracks a whip.
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a person who exerts authority, especially excessively or ostentatiously.
Example Sentences
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We also want to thank Clay Eals for his yeomanly work as editor-in-chief and general whip-cracker.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2018
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
The rope played whip-cracker with me for some time and before reach174ing the top I was covered with bruises.
From Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills by Owen, Luella Agnes
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 Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
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