whopverb [ T ]
uk/wɒp/us/wɑːp/-pp- mainly US informalto hit or defeat:
She whopped him with her handbag.
The Yankees whopped the Cleveland Indians 9–2.
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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