whupping

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noun

A beating.

“We laid a whupping on that team.”

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of whup
nounwhupping (plural whuppings)

plural whuppings

  1. colloquialA beating.

    What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.

    1986, August Wilson, Fences
  2. colloquialA brutal defeat.

    We laid a whupping on that team.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
beatingwhopping
Cite this entry
APA

whupping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whupping

MLA

“whupping.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whupping. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whupping,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whupping.

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