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whip-cracking
whip-cracking n. and adj.
Brit. 
/ˈwɪpˌkrakɪŋ/
, /ˈwɪpˌkrakɪŋ/U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪpˌkrækɪŋ/
/ˈ(h)wɪpˌkrækɪŋ/ΘΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [noun] > crack or snap > of whip
yark1555
whip-cracking1775
smack1781
whip-crack1893
1775 J. Jekyll Let. 21 Nov. in Corr. (1894) ii. 62 An Englishman at Tours who took a lesson of whip-cracking every day from a postillion.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World ii The whip-crackings, and shouts of the whips as they encouraged..the hounds.
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Whip-cracking, adj.
1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle i. 17 For whom I sent the gay whip-cracking words To round them up in flabbergasted herds.
1976 A. Murray Stomping Blues ix. 166 He also behaves for all the world like a whip-cracking trail driver.
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