Whip vs Rap - What's the difference?
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A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals
# Same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
(hunting) A whipper-in.
* 1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 27:
(politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.
Whipped cream.
(nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
(African American Vernacular English) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
(roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
To hit with a whip.
By extension, to hit with any flexible object.
(slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
* 2008 , Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel
To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
To urge into action.
(nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
* Moxon
(nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
* John Gay
To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
* He whipped the ball at me.
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To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
* Emerson
To snap back and forth like a whip.
* The pennants whipped in the wind.
To move very fast.
* The wind whipped through the valley.
* L'Estrange
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
To move (something) very fast; often with up'', ''out , etc.
* L'Estrange
* Walpole
(roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
(figurative) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
* Shakespeare
To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
(uncountable) Blame (for something).
(informal) A casual talk
(uncountable) Rap music.
A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.
To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.
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* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
(dated) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
* Prior
(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.
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(informal) To talk casually.
Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
* Jonathan Swift
* Mrs. Alexander
A whit; a jot.
Whip is a related term of rap.
As an acronym whip
is (baseball) ; a statistic of the number of baserunners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched.As a noun rap is
rap, rap music (music style).whip
English
Noun
(en noun)- From the far side of the wood came the long shrill screech […] which signifies that one of the whips has viewed the fox quitting the covert.
Synonyms
* (last for directing animals) crop (especially for horses), dressage whip (especially for horses), driving whip (especially for horses), jumping bat (especially for horses), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong * (lash for corporal punishment) cat (nautical), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong * (political party enforcer) party whipDerived terms
* bullock-whip * bullwhip * buggy whip * coachwhip * dogwhip * drafting whip * horsewhip * longe whip * party whip * signal whip, signalwhip * snake whip, snakewhip * stockwhip * whipcracking * whip snake * yard whipVerb
(whipp)- The rider whipped the horse.
- I whipped her with a newspaper.
- She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
- to whip eggs or cream
- He whipped the department into shape.
- Its string is firmly whipped about with small gut.
- to whip a ruffle
- In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.
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- whipping their rough surface for a trout
- Two friends, travelling, met a bear upon the way; the one whips up a tree, and the other throws himself flat upon the ground.
- He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.
- She, in a hurry, whips up her darling under her arm.
- He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.
- They would whip me with their fine wits.
- to whip wheat
Synonyms
* flail * flog * knout * lash * quirt * scourge * thrash * threshDerived terms
* whip in * whip off * whipped vote * whipper * whip upReferences
* Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson: 1828. A dictionary of the English language 2nd edition. Publisher: William Pickering, 1828. 831 pages. Page 818. Google Public Domain Books :rap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rap, rappe, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(wikipedia rap)- The teacher gave the wayward pupil a rap across the knuckles with her ruler.
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap . He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he rapped again, a little louder than before.
- You can't act irresponsibly and then expect me to take the rap .
Synonyms
* (blame) fallDerived terms
* beat the rap * bum rap * rap music * rap song * take the rapEtymology 2
From (etyl) rappen, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) .Verb
(rapp)- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ¶ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ¶ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ¶ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ¶ "'Tis some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — ¶ Only this, and nothing more."
- He walked softly up the sanded path, tiptoed up the steps and across the piazza, and rapped' at the front door, not too loudly, lest this too might attract the attention of the man across the street. There was no response to his rap. He put his ear to the door and heard voices within, and the muffled sound of footsteps. After a moment he ' rapped again, a little louder than before.
- With one great peal they rap the door.
- ''He started to rap after listening to the Beastie Boys
- He rapped a song to his girlfriend.
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Derived terms
* rap on * rapperSee also
* emcee * hip-hopEtymology 3
Uncertain.Etymology 4
Perhaps contracted from rapparee.Noun
(en noun)- Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps .
- Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap , save with her consent.
- I don't care a rap .
- That's not worth a rap .