Whip (disambiguation)

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A whip is a stick, cord, or strap, usually with a stiff handle, used for striking or as an animal training aid.

Whip or whips or The Whip may also refer to:

Devices

• Whip antenna, for radio waves
• Whiplash Injury Protection System, in automobiles
• Whipstaff, sometimes called whip, a device used to steer a 15th or 16th century sailing vessel

Arts and entertainment

Dance

• Whip (dance), swing dance popular in Texas
• Swingout, dance move also known as a whip

Fictional characters

• Whip (comics), several DC Comics characters
• Whip (King of Fighters), a video game character
• Whipple "Whip" Hoxworth, in the James Michener novel Hawaii

Literature

• Whip (novel), a novel by Martin Caidin
• Whip (flash press paper), a sporting male weekly from the 1840s

Music

• WHIP (AM), a radio station (1350 AM) licensed to serve Mooresville, North Carolina, USA
• Whip (percussion), a percussion instrument
• The Whip (band), British electro-rock band
• Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae), the debut single by American rapper Silentó

Plays

• The Whip (play), 1909 melodrama

Sports

• Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP), baseball statistic
• Washington Whips, defunct US soccer/football team

People

• Whipple Whip Jones (1909-2001), American ski industry pioneer, founder, developer and original operator of the Aspen Highlands ski area in Aspen, Colorado
• Whip (musician), US folk singer-songwriter

Other uses

• To punish using a whip - see Flagellation
• Whip (politics), a political party discipline official
• Whip (tree), a slender unbranched shoot or plant
• The Whip (ride), an amusement ride
• Whip, a school prefect
• Whip, terminology used by the contemporary R&B community to describe an (usually luxury) automobile

See also

• Whipped (disambiguation), or whipping
• Whipping knot
• WIP (disambiguation)
• WIPP (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "whip"
• All pages with titles containing whip