Definition of whirlpool
1a : a confused tumult and bustle : whirl
b : a magnetic or impelling force by which something may be engulfed
refusing to be drawn into this whirlpool of intrigue— A. D. White
b : whirlpool bath
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The first known use of whirlpool was in 1529
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