Meanings
adjectivewhiplashing (comparative more whiplashing, superlative most whiplashing)
comparative more whiplashing · superlative most whiplashing
- Causing whiplash.
What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.
2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2025
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of whiplash
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APA
whiplashing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiplashing
MLA
“whiplashing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiplashing. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whiplashing,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whiplashing.
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