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whiplash (n.)
1570s, "the lash of a whip," from
whip
(n.) +
lash
(n.). The injury caused by sudden head motion so called by 1955, in reference to the notion of moving to and fro like a cracking whip. The verb in this sense is recorded by 1971.
