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motion so violent it breaks the sound barrier with its own tip.
means The act of striking something repeatedly with a flexible lash or rod, or by extension any fast, snapping motion or a thorough defeat.
from From the verb 'whip,' which entered Middle English (as 'wippen') likely from a Middle Low or Middle Dutch source meaning to move or swing quickly. The sense of beating came naturally from the tool itself, and the kitchen sense of 'whipping' cream — beating it briskly into froth — followed the same logic of rapid repeated motion. The '-ing' simply turns the action into an ongoing one.
- sonic boom
- a whip's crack is its tip going supersonic
- cooking sense
- trapping air folds bubbles into doubled volume
- naval roots
- sailors bound rope ends to stop fraying
- speed gain
- energy travels down to the thin tip, accelerating
- language
- a whip-round means passing the hat for cash
cat o' nine tails — british naval punishment instrument with 9 knotted cords, used until 1948
bullwhip cracking sport — international whip cracking competition held annually in australia since 1995
flagellants medieval movement — european religious sect that publicly self-flagellated during 14th-century plague years