whippy n.
1. (also whippy kick) a pocket.
![]() | Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xliii 11/2: whippy: Pocket. Sometimes whip your kick, or willy, same as wallet. | |
![]() | Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 52: Whippy Kick Pocket where money is kept. | |
![]() | Up the Cross 162: ‘Some small change from his hip whippy’. | (con. 1959)
2. a hiding place, esp. for money.
![]() | Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) cliv 16/2: I’ve never yet met a Kiwi who didn’t cry poor mouth while he snipped you bone dry and all the time had a secret whippy tucked away somewhere you didn’t know about [AND]. |
3. a wallet.
![]() | see sense 1. | |
![]() | Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 10: The vanilla fudge had hit him up for fifty Oxford scholars. It was a hefty blow on his whippy at that time. |
4. a reserve of money, a profit.
![]() | Between the Devlin 19: [T]here should be a bit of a whippy in hand. It had been almost three years since he’d checked on the old block of flats [...] The place could be worth anything by now. |