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whop 1 of 2

noun

variants also whap
Definition of whopnext
as in blow
a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument the doctor gave my knee a little whop with his mallet to test my reflexes

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whop

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verb

ˈ(h)wäp How to pronounce whop (audio)
variants or whap
1
as in to whip
to defeat by a large margin despite high hopes, the hometown favorites got whopped again maybe if that television station replaced its obnoxious news anchor, it wouldn't get consistently whopped in the ratings

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2
as in to lick
to strike repeatedly he called me a name and I whopped him good

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whop
  1. blow
  2. whip
  3. lick
  4. thump
  5. overcome
  6. lash
  7. slap
  8. bomb
Noun
  • If last year’s bill delays were a blow to budgets, distribution troubles were the uppercut.
    — A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • While often associated with blows to the head during contact sports, concussions are common at all ages.
    — Richard Sima, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of blow
Verb
  • Who wouldn’t like to whip out a formula that enabled you to judge this action as evil and the other as merely wrong?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Michele plays Darcy Miles, a Pilates Princess and trainer who, when asked to whip her girls into shape, flexes her muscles too hard.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of whip
Verb
  • Baldwin’s post featured a video of the dog licking a cherry ice pop and looking at the rain.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Therefore, scrapes without a licking branch aren’t repeatedly visited and re-used by the local deer herd.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of lick
Noun
  • The Giants lineup even lacked Rafael Devers’ considerable thump for the first time since the Giants traded for him last summer.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • If those ground tests show the jet’s acoustic thump is soft enough for suburban skies, NASA plans to fly the X-59 over several US communities to gather public feedback.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of thump
Verb
  • To overcome this, the Delft team engineered a lightweight processing pipeline that runs onboard using a mere 34 kilobytes of memory.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Edwards doubts that voluntary oversight will overcome the commercial incentives to release their latest, most powerful models.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of overcome
Verb
  • Trump has also lashed out at individual reporters in person or over social media, sometimes in strikingly personal terms -- insulting them in briefings, or in his recent speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Bigelow’s complaint highlights instances where Toro is alleged to lash out.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of lash
Noun
  • Power, in-your-face attitude, and urgency are what make half of the Pretenders’ still-extraordinary 1978 debut slap.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Her Oscars triumph was also the night of the notorious Will Smith-Chris Rock on-stage slap, which overshadowed coverage.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of slap
Verb
  • Most of these were later destroyed when the family house was bombed during the Lebanese Civil War of 1975.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The person in the White House has asked Ukraine to stop bombing Russian refineries and oil/gas/diesel facilities.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of bomb
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“Whop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whop. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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