Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) used derog. whether implying a dedicated womaniser or a penis that is thin as a whiplash.

2023

(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 32: [A]ny other extraneous cooze those whipdicks are slipping it to.

(US black) anywhere one can have sexual intercourse.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 152: Any place designated for sex [...] killing floor, slaughter house, whip shack.

1. (also whip it in) to have sexual intercourse; esp. in modern phr. whip it in, whip it out and wipe it.

1700		T. Brown Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 33: [I] judg’d he had been whipping it with the gentlewomen before mentioned [i.e. two whores] though ’twas not convenient to tell him so, lest his wife should watch his waters more narrowly than she had done.
1926		Clara Smith ‘Whip It to a Jelly’ 🎵 ‘Whip it to a jelly’, stir it in a bowl, / You just whip it to a jelly if you like good jelly roll.
1977		G. Melly Rum, Bum and Concertina (1978) 16: You’re off to the pictures now to learn how to whip it in, whip it out and wipe it!
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak 148: Whip it in, whip it out and wipe it.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 230: whip it up, whip it in, whip it out and wipe it A sexual quickie for the man.

2. to masturbate.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.

(US street gang) to attack, to start a fight.

1962

(con. 1953–7) L. Yablonsky Violent Gang (1967) 67: If they want war we’ll turn it on [...] We’ll just whip it on and wipe them all out good.

1. (US) to have sexual intercourse.

1961		T. Taylor Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 75: [of a woman] [H]ow far to go — a kiss? An evening in the back row of the pictures? Or to whip it on them.
1979		E. Torres After Hours 171: I hear from Steffie he whips it on her steady.

2. (US drugs) to inject someone other than oneself with narcotics.

1967

Velvet Underground ‘Sister Ray’ 🎵 Whip it on me, whip it on me, Jim.

3. (US) to explain and inform someone of facts and events.

1967		Current Sl. I:4 2/2: Whip it on me, interj. Tell me.
1972		D. Claerbaut Black Jargon in White America 86: whip it on v. to say something frankly and entirely; to explain something fully and without hesitation.

4. (US, also whip it to someone) to give, to hand over.

1968		N. Heard Howard Street 137: The other night I beat a trick outta a hundred dollars and whipped it on my man.
1972		M. Casey ‘Knowledge’ in Obscenities 6: When the Command Sergeant Major / Asks ya somethin [...] Ah know ma shit / Whip it to me.
1986		L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 6: Put your money where your mouth is, Slopehead [...] Whip it on me.

1. (UK Und.) to lay (the blame) on.

1865

Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 17/1: Were we ‘pinched’ for anything we might do, the blame of the others would surely be ‘whipped’ on us.

2. (US) to beat up.

1967		M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 250: I got a guy I wanted whipped on.
1967		F. Salas Tattoo the Wicked Cross (1981) 207: He whip on some paddy boys [...] Ring some bells in their heads.
1967		H.S. Thompson letter 22 Oct. Proud Highway (1997) 646: I recently flew to New York with a heavy club, for no other reason than to crash into his office and whip on him.

3. (US) to give something to someone, to hand over.

1976		R. Price Blood Brothers 118: He opens his locker and whips some bad shit on me, we split a big jay sittin’ on this bench.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 21: I’ll whip some bread on you today, after I tell you what I want.

4. (US) to subject someone to something.

1965		H. Williamson Hustler 130: I ain’t never been called so many mother fuckers before in my life! She really whupped ‘em on me! [Ibid.] 175: [The judge] told me when I got out to come see him, and if I didn’t have a job he’d get me one. Then he whupped one to three on me!
1979		‘Iceberg Slim’ Airtight Willie and Me 97: She remembered how she got in the wind to whip her master plan on Red.

see choke one’s lizard under lizard n.

see beat one’s/the dummy under dummy n.³

see under skull n.¹

to beat completely and comprehensively, whether or not with violence.

[1661		‘The Rump Dockt’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 45: Those nine sons of Mars, / That whipt the Rumps Arse, / I mean the Commanders War-lick].
1945		C. Himes If He Hollers 147: [T]he only way you’ll ever get along with that son of a bitch is to whip his ass.
1955		‘Hal Ellson’ ‘Tell Them Nothing’ in Tell Them Nothing (1956) 6: Supposed I challenged Bullet to a fair one and whipped his butt?
1959		C. Himes Crazy Kill 19: If he don’t stop picking at me [...] I’m gonna have Johnny whip his ass.
1969		H. Rap Brown Die Nigger Die! 44: We used to whip their asses every week. We beat ’em once 106 to 6.
1974		(con. 1960s) R. Price Wanderers 67: We gonna whip yo’ asses so bad you gonna have to shit out the other end.
1974		R. Carter Sixteenth Round (1991) 164: A young black jitterbug called Mother Herb started whupping on his faggot’s ass — which was white.
1976		P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 240: The story I loved the best was that Major Finch whipped Dad’s fanny when they hassled together on maneuvers.
1983		S. King Christine 364: I hope you get your ass whupped.
1988		R.R. Moore ‘Signifying Monkey’ 🎵 If you’ll fight like men should / I’d whoop yo ass all over these woods!
1989		(con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 95: I’m gonna whip his ass so bad he will either go all the way crazy or come back well.
1991		B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 140: Once I’m done whuppin’ your ass, I’ll puke in the middle of the bar.
1992		S. Armitage ‘Great Sporting Moments: The Treble’ Kid 57: Whose arse I whipped with five choice strokes / perfected on West Yorkshire’s threadbare courts.
1992		UGK ‘Trill Ass Nigga’ 🎵 If you wanna do it then step your ass to the ring [...] I’m steady whoopin that ass ho.
1993		Dr Dre ‘Lyrical Gangbang’ 🎵 Ya quick ta talk shit I whip your ass nigga.
1997		L. Pettiway Workin’ It 151: She would whup Missy’s ass.
2001		(con. 1990s) in J. Miller One of the Guys 168: ‘A female has to show she’s tough [...] She’s gotta go whip some girl’s ass, shoot somebody, rob somebody’.
2005		L. Theroux Call of the Weird (2006) 185: One of the rappers [...] gave his name as Wamp. He said it stood for ‘Whoop Ass Many Places.’.
2015		Balimore Sun (MD) 3 June T23/4: ‘They whooped my ass,’ the kid says.

(US black) to injure, to beat; thus n. head-whipping.

1942		Z.N. Hurston ‘Story in Harlem Sl.’ in Novels and Stories (1995) 239: All he needs to see is the pimps’ salute, and he will out with his night-stick and whip your head to the red. Beat your head just as flat as a dime!
1942		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 17 Oct. 10: As far as ‘head whipping’ is concerned, we have given that up for [the] bone-cracking Oriental sport called ju-jitsu.

to masturbate.

1930		J.T. Farrell ‘Clyde’ Short Stories (1937) 151: Keeping your cherry on ice is what gets plenty of those guys put in the booby hatch [...] Daown [sic] home, now, they was a jellybean who was a bashful guy, and he couldn’t git up the courage to find himself a piece of honey. So he goes along whipping the dummy, until he went plumb crazy.
1981		Spears Sl. and Euphemism 421: whip one’s wire to masturbate.
2003		Number One Adult Sexual Health Terms Advisor 🌐 Masturbation Slang Male Terms: [...] whip cream or whip the dummy or whip your dripper.
2004		P. Baker Fantabulosa 152: To masturbate [...] whack, whip the weasel, yank.
2008		answers.yahoo.com 🌐 Did your mommy tell you, it was alright to whip your dummy? [...] Christian parents, do your kids know what you think about masturbation?

a schoolmaster.

1611		R. Cotgrave Dict. of Fr. and Eng. Tongues n.p.: fesse-cul A Pedanticall whip-arse.
1816		A. Boyer Dictionnaire 247/2: Un fessecul , a whip-arse.

very thin beer.

1738		Swift Polite Conversation 73: I believe, the Brewer forgot the Malt, or the River was too near him. Faith, it is meer Whip-belly-vengeance.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn) n.p.: Whip-Belly Vengeance, or pinch-gut vengeance, of which he that gets the most has the worst share. Weak or sour beer.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1788].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1866		J.E. Brogden Provincial Words [...] in Lincolnshire 223: Whip-belly—Thin, poor, or weak liquor. Ex. She’s a regular skinflint, and supplies her customers with whip-belly.

see under boss n.²

1. (UK Und.) a mendicant villain who poses as a discharged mariner, backed by a counterfeit licence, suitably adorned with fake seals; he also specialized in robbing stalls, fairground booths and similar open displays of goods.

c.1530		Ponet in Maitland On Reformation 74: Albeit one Boner (a bare whippe Jacke) for lucre of money toke upon him to be thy mother, yet thou wast persone Savage’s bastarde [F&H].
c.1561		Awdeley Fraternitye of Vacabondes in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 4: A Whypiacke is one, that by coulor of a counterfaite Lisence (which they call a Gybe, and the seales they cal Iarckes) doth vse to beg lyke a Maryner, But hys chiefest trade is to rob Bowthes in a Faire, or to pilfer ware from staules, which they cal heauing of the Bowth.
c.1566		Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 48: [heading] A Freshe Water Mariner or Whipiacke.
1592		Groundworke of Conny-catching [as cit. c.1566].
1608		Dekker Belman of London (3rd edn) D2: Then there is another sort of nymble-fingred knaues, and they are called Whipiacks: who talke of nothing but fights at Sea, piracies, drownings, and shipwracks, trauelling both in the shape and names of Mariners.
1611		Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle V i: A mere whip-jack, and that is, in the commonwealth of rogues, a slave that can talk of sea-fight.
1669		W. Winstanley New Help To Discourse 133: Whip-jacks, are counterfeit Marriners, who talk of nothing but fights at Sea, Piracies, drowning and Shipwracks, they are very expert in robbing Booths at Fairs, which they call Heaving the Booth, they have always about them a counterfeit License, which they call a Gybe, and the seals to it Jarkes.
1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn) 54: Whip-Jacks are Counterfeit Mariners, who talk of nothing but Fights at Sea, Pyracies, Drownings, and Shipwrecks.
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68b: Give me leave to give you the names (as in their Canting Language they call themselves) of all (or most of such) as follow the Vagabond Trade, according to their Regiments or Divisions, as [...] Whip-Jacks.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Whip-jacks c. the tenth Order of the Canting Crew; Counterfeit Mariners Begging with false Passes, pretending Shipwrecks, great Losses at Sea, &c. narrow escapes; telling dismal Stories, having learnt Tar-terms on purpose, but are meer Cheats.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit 183: The Whipjacks are such as pretend themselves to be Mariners, that have been cast away, and shipwreck’d either on the Coast, or in some foregin Land, and have nothing to support them in their Travelling to their Habitation: And the better to colour it, pretend a Pass, tho’ it is altogether forged, and they know no more of the Sea than a tame Goose.
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: whip-Jacks the Nineteenth Order of the Canting Crew; counterfeit Mariners begging with false Passes, pretending Ship-wrecks, great Losses at Sea, narrow Escapes, &c. telling dismal Stories, having learnt Tar-Terms on purpose, but are meer Cheats, and will not stick to rob a Booth at a Fair, or an House in some By-road [etc.].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
1749		B.M. Carew ‘The Oath of the Canting Crew’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 51: No whip-jack, palliard, patrico; / No jarkman, be he high or low.
1753		Richardson Sir Charles Grandison (1812) VI 530: Sir Charles Grandison is none of your gew-gaw whip-jacks that you know not where to have.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Whip jacks, the tenth order of the canting crew, rogues who having learned a few sea terms, beg with counterfeit passes, pretending to be sailors shipwrecked on the neighbouring coast, and on their way to the port from whence they sailed.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1834		(con. 1737–9) W.H. Ainsworth Rookwood (1857) 170: The whipjack, habited in his sailor gear-striped shirt and dirty canvas trousers.
1849		Examiner 14 Apr. 10/2: These pretended sailors were called Whip-jacks.
1856		‘A Harassing Painsworth’ in Yates & Brough (eds) Our Miscellany 28: Listen! all you high pads and low pads, rum gills and queer gills, patricos, palliards, priggers, whipjacks, and jackmen, from the arch rogue to the needy mizzler.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 95: whip-jacks Men who pretend to be shipwrecked sailors.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn) 245: whip jack a sham shipwrecked sailor, called also a turnpike sailor.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 94: Whip Jacks, men who pretend to he shipwrecked sailors.

2. as a general derog.

1821–6

‘Bill Truck’ Man o’ War’s Man (1843) 275: All to save myself from being bored to death by a parcel of ignorant impertinent whip-jacks.

see under game n.

see whip off v. (1)

see separate entry.

see separate entries.

see separate entries.

to waste time and loaf on the job.

1906		Burra Record (SA) 12 Dec. 3/1: They Say [...] That the old bay ’oss don’t work the whip now, but its owner is whipping the cat.
1944		O. Ferguson ‘Vocabulary for Lakes, [etc.]’ AS XIX:2 107: The phrase whipping the dog [...] is still widely popular as an indication of duty-shirking.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 120: More strongly, also referring to loafing or shirking one’s duty, to whip [or fuck] the dog.

1. to collect, to organize; to encourage.

1709		Cibber Rival Fools V i: I have already sent my Niece, to prepare herself to marry him [...] we’ll call up Doctor Double-Chin as we go; whip up the Ceremony, and tack ’em together like a new pair of Stockings.
1920		‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond 69: Wouldn’t it be better, Hugh, to whip up two or three of the boys and have a real scrap.
1934		S. Walker City Editor 151: [T]he herd mind, whether it is to be whipped up for another war or made receptive to a soporific mattress, must continue to take its pummeling.
1966		P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 97: None of us had any so we whipped up the price of a packet of fags.
2000		T. Udo Vatican Bloodbath 116: The dog was caught and was about to be put down when a local newspaper whipped up a campaign to have ‘Satan’ reprieved.

2. to create, e.g. a suit of clothes.

1939		W. Winchell On Broadway 11 Dec. [synd. col.] Kaufman and Hart [...] spend a year on a stage job, whereas the wireless morsels are whipped up in one week.
1965		A. James America’s Homosexual Underground 137: I used to be a good cook, but I don’t see myself whipping up French cuisine for myself.
1980		J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 18: They used to show her things in the ladies’ magazines and Grandma Yula would whip it right up for them.
1986		R.G. Barrett Real Thing 159: How about i whip up a feed of steak sangers.
1992		Wolfe & Lornell Leadbelly 148: Lomax felt that the whole book could be whipped up in no more than a month or so of intense work .
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 7: I can get Jimmy the Stitch to whip us a Paul Smith copy or a Nicole Farhi for a fraction of the cost.