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Definition of bullwhip
: a rawhide whip with a very long plaited lash
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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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1852
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