whippitn.
/ˈwɪpɪt/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪpᵻt/ 1. North American. A type of handheld utensil with a spinning mechanism, used to beat eggs, cream, etc. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > whisk or beater
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1926 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 11 Mar. 16 (advt.) The ‘Whippit’ is one of the greatest time savers... It whips cream perfectly stiff in 15 seconds.
1948 Winnipeg Free Press 6 Feb. (advt.) A beater [that] makes one egg go as far as two... Watch the ‘Whippit’ in action.
1956 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 19 July 29/7 A whippit or blade-type beater can beat cream in one-fourth to one-half minute.
2004 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl. (Nexis) 2 Dec. d1 Her antique is a Whippit, a utensil that belonged to her mother.
2. Originally and chiefly North American.
a. A small metal canister containing nitrous oxide, used esp. to pressurize a reusable dispenser for whipped cream.In form Whippets, a proprietary name in the United States.
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1936 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 17 Mar. 491/2 Nu-Whip Corp... Whippets. For gases in cartridge containers adapted for aerated food products under pressure.
1948 N.Y. Times 18 Apr. 48 (advt.) No beating necessary..a whippet charger does it.
1998 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 25 June Whippits are used commercially to refill whipped cream cans.
b. slang. Usually in plural. A dose of nitrous oxide (often obtained from such a canister) inhaled as a means of becoming intoxicated. Frequently in to do whippits.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a dose of > for inhalation
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1979 Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 10 Jan. 4/3 Brady theorizes that teen-agers may get high on the whippets and other drugs and perform burglaries.
1993 N.Y. Times 26 Sept. ix. 3/4 [He] sucked on a pink balloon. It was filled with nitrous oxide... ‘They're doing whippets.’
2000 R. J. Evans Entertainment vi. 81 ‘So what are you up to now, then?’.. ‘Whippets, like,’ the kid said, slipping the air freshener out of his bomber jacket.
2004 Atlanta Constit. (Nexis) 2 Apr. 6 c Shaggy grabs a whipped-cream can and huffs a whippit off it.
2006 Denver Westword (Nexis) 2 Nov. [He] indulged in..doing whippits mid-interview.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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