Whip (disambiguation)
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A whip is a stick, cord, or strap, usually with a stiff handle, used for striking or as an animal training aid.
Whip or whips or The Whip may also refer to:
Devices
- Whip antenna, for radio waves
- Whiplash Injury Protection System, in automobiles
- Whipstaff, sometimes called whip, a device used to steer a 15th or 16th century sailing vessel
Arts and entertainment
Dance
- Whip (dance), swing dance popular in Texas
- Swingout, dance move also known as a whip
Fictional characters
- Whip (comics), several DC Comics characters
- Whip (King of Fighters), a video game character
- Whipple "Whip" Hoxworth, in the James Michener novel Hawaii
Literature
- Whip (novel), a novel by Martin Caidin
- Whip (flash press paper), a sporting male weekly from the 1840s
Music
- WHIP (AM), a radio station (1350 AM) licensed to serve Mooresville, North Carolina, USA
- Whip (percussion), a percussion instrument
- The Whip (band), British electro-rock band
- Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae), the debut single by American rapper Silentó
Plays
- The Whip (play), 1909 melodrama
Sports
- Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP), baseball statistic
- Washington Whips, defunct US soccer/football team
People
- Whipple Whip Jones (1909-2001), American ski industry pioneer, founder, developer and original operator of the Aspen Highlands ski area in Aspen, Colorado
- Whip (musician), US folk singer-songwriter
Other uses
- To punish using a whip - see Flagellation
- Whip (politics), a political party discipline official
- Whip (tree), a slender unbranched shoot or plant
- The Whip (ride), an amusement ride
- Whip, a school prefect
- Whip, terminology used by the contemporary R&B community to describe an (usually luxury) automobile
See also
- Whipped (disambiguation), or whipping
- Whipping knot
- WIP (disambiguation)
- WIPP (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "whip"
- All pages with titles containing whip
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