whip up

phrasal verb

whipped up; whipping up; whips up

: to excite (someone or something) : to cause (someone or something) to feel strong emotions about something

His speech whipped up the crowd.

informal : to cause or create (something)

She was trying to whip up some enthusiasm.

informal : to produce or prepare (a meal) very quickly

I can whip a meal up in no time.

Examples of whip up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Frenchie meets Sameer and, being a whiz at whipping up formulae in dingy labs, pitches a method to neutralize the virus’s contagion factor while maintaining its potency. —

Alex Raiman, EW.com, 11 July 2024 Arriving almost three decades later, Twisters gets the job done in terms of whipping up life-threatening tornadoes that leave a trail of wreckage in their wake. —

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024 That includes Syracuse and Albany, New York, and Scranton, Pennsylvania. Beryl already whipped up more than a dozen tornadoes across Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana on Monday and two in Indiana and Kentucky on Tuesday. —

Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 10 July 2024 Get The Recipe 13 of 18 Hasselback Sausage Bites No grill is required to whip up these crowd-pleasing sausage bites. —

Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 5 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for whip up

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