whiplashn.
/ˈwɪplaʃ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪpˌlæʃ/ 1. The lash of a whip. Also allusively and figurative.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > whip-lash
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1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14v Whyplash [1577 Whiplash] well knotted, & cart rope enough.
1774 Pennsylvania Gaz. 9 Feb. (Suppl.) 2/3 Silk whip-lashes.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxii. 307 He let out his whip-lash and touched up a little boy on the calves of his legs.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed iv. 64 ‘He wants the whip-lash.’ ‘Lay it on with science, then.’
1894 Athenæum 11 Aug. 195/2 Nothing escapes the whip~lash of the ‘college wit’.
1915 M. B. Saunders Captain the Curé v Listening to the sharp whip-lash of furious voices in the room below.
2. transferred. An object resembling the lash of a whip, as the vibraculum of certain polyzoans; spec. a species of seaweed with long narrow fronds.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > whipcord seaweeds
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1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side ii. 124 The two species of Sea Whiplash,..One kind of this whiplash (Chorda filum) grows attached to rocks and stones.
1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos 146 The long and tough whip-lash in which the point of each leaf terminates.
1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 225 In the Scuparia..there are some special organs of defence... One of these is called the vibraculum, or the whiplash.
3. An injury to the head, neck, or spine caused by the head's being dashed to and fro on the less mobile trunk when a seated person is jerked forwards or backwards, as in a car accident. Usually attributive, esp. in whiplash injury.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > injury to head or face
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1955 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 5 Nov. 983/2 Poor seat-design accounts for thousands of so-called whiplash injuries.
1962 Times 23 Jan. 5/5 They discount arguments that ‘whiplash’ injury is common among safety belt wearers.
1971 H. Pacy Road Accidents i. 21 In damage to rear of vehicle think of whiplash.
1975 Year Bk. Ear, Nose & Throat 14 This article documents another useful study regarding the effects of cervical spine trauma, or ‘whiplash’ trauma.
1977 Woman's Day (Austral.) 24 Oct. 47/1 My husand had a car accident at the beginning of last year and received a whiplash injury.
1983 Which? Sept. 402/3 If no effective head restraint is provided, the head tends to get left behind, causing major bending and straining of the neck—‘whiplash’ injuries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
whiplashv.
/ˈwɪplaʃ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪpˌlæʃ/ 1. transitive.
a. To inflict sudden or severe harm on.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > suddenly or severely
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1957 A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia viii. 83 The bull's trajectory is accordingly also bent in an arc... The bull is not now being violently whip-lashed as in the ‘benders’, but is being smoothly worn down.
1975 Business Week 14 July 50 Whether such a complex plan can be managed effectively, or whether it will be whiplashed by the short-term interest of elected officials and mired in a new superbureaucracy is perhaps the most important unanswered question.
1980 N.Y. Times 28 June 9/5 Much of the playing was perfunctory. Mr. Getz had a ghastly time, whiplashed between feedback and reed trouble that led to a classic climactic squeak.
1982 Christian Sci. Monitor 5 Oct. b 2/2 Oil field service companies have been ‘whiplashed’ as profit-starved major oil companies have sharply cut back drilling programs.
b. To jerk in a contrary direction; spec. to cause a whiplash injury to.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > injure specific part
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1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 27 May 55/1 Parents who shake their babies in a fit of temper are threatening their lives, a surgeon has warned. Severe shaking can ‘whiplash’ the baby's head, causing blood clots on the brain.
1980 Washington Post 30 Nov. (Mag. section) 53/1 (caption) The final solution to the problem of the hook on your tape measure slipping off the edge of the credenza to which you've attached it, whiplashing the tape into your eye.
1982 J. Gardner For Special Services xiii. 133 The force of impact had whiplashed the man's head, breaking his neck.
2. intransitive. To move suddenly and forcefully, like a whip that is cracked. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > make sudden movement [verb (intransitive)] > move suddenly and violently
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1963 Lebende Sprachen 8 169/3 [Drivers' vocabulary.] To whiplash. 1. his head whiplashed. 2. the trailer whiplashed.
1971 Daily Tel. 13 Dec. 3/2 The Environment Department is investigating methods used to fix posts for motorway crash barriers. It fears that if they have not been planted deep enough, a crash might uproot them and allow a stretch of high-tension metal barrier to ‘whiplash’ across the carriageways.
1972 D. Delman Sudden Death (1973) iii. 77 He set us against each other. And he figures..one of us..is going to whiplash with something he can use.
1977 Washington Post 27 Nov. (Mag. section) 40/3 Conservatives say they can't do or say anything because it will hurt their careers. It's like the old backlash has whiplashed.
1983 Washington Post 20 Feb. g3/6 The cable that catches the planes when they come in snapped. It whiplashed around the deck and caught the Chief in the spine.
1983 D. Boggis Woman they sent to Fight xxxviii. 220 Margaret released her... Zelaszny whiplashed round..terrified.
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