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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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
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