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whipping (n.)
1560s, "a beating with a whip," verbal noun from
whip
(v.). As "a defeat," 1835, American English colloquial. Also as a past participle adjective; hence
whipping post
(c. 1600);
whipping boy
(1640s);
whipping block
(1877).
