dogwhip

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noun

A whip intended for use on dogs.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

noundogwhip (plural dogwhips)

plural dogwhips

  1. A whip intended for use on dogs.

    Here the speaker took a dogwhip from his pocket...

    1862, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, A Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts about Art
    1 more example

    On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip.

    1950, Wilhelm Stekel, Eden Paul, Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy
verbdogwhip (third-person singular simple present dogwhips, present participle dogwhipping, simple past and past participle dogwhipped)

present singular third person dogwhips · participle present dogwhipping · participle past dogwhipped · past dogwhipped

  1. raretransitiveTo beat with a dogwhip.

    The officers cursed and dogwhipped their way through to fall into a ragged line before Raj where he waited with the signallers and Battalion standard; the companies fell in to the shouted commands of their NCOs […]

    2013, David Drake, S. M. Stirling, Hope Reborn

Origin

From dog + whip.

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APA

dogwhip. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogwhip

MLA

“dogwhip.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogwhip. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dogwhip,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dogwhip.

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