Definition of bullwhip
: a rawhide whip with a very long plaited lash
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So, who will be the next star to wield the worn fedora and bullwhip?
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While at dinner, the man told police, a male acquaintance showed him a bullwhip.
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Some examples: Sell both kidneys, start a polka band and wrangle armadillos with a bullwhip.
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Scalise also has an actual bullwhip and memorabilia from the annual congressional baseball game.
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It’s more of a crack, like a bullwhip, a low, crisp crackling.
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To ensure that, the network twisted its rules and contorted itself into a bullwhip to make sure Hill knows what not to say.
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Next to it, a uniformed man in a Libyan coast guard boat was yelling and wielding a bullwhip.
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McCay climbed onto the stage at the Palace Theater in Chicago, bullwhip in hand.
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First Known Use of bullwhip
1852
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