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Whiplash   /wˈɪplˌæʃ/  /hwˈɪplˌæʃ/   Listen
Whiplash

noun
1.
An injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident).  Synonym: whiplash injury.
2.
A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object.  Synonyms: lash, whip.



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"Whiplash" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a sentence he knew would sting like a whiplash. But he thought better of it. He would not try plucking the mote out of another man's eye, when he had so recently got clear of the ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... to remain longer in the presence of such an enemy; his big hands were doubling into hard fists; he was shaking in all his muscles. He leaped back onto the seat of his jumper, swung his team and sent his horses leaping up a whiplash road which traversed the cliff—a road he had disdained in his wild impatience to meet ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day


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