penny whip

noun

A cheap toy whip for use by children, such as to start a spinning top.

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Meanings

nounpenny whip (plural penny whips)

plural penny whips

  1. historicalA cheap toy whip for use by children, such as to start a spinning top.

    "Any way, sir, I've been a good servant to you and Mr. Leo, bless him! - why, it seems but the other day that I used to lead him about the streets with a penny whip[.]"

    1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
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