Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. defeated.

1836		Carroll Free Press (Carrollton, OH) 19 Feb. 1/3: He [...] got into a chink of a fight [...] got whipped and hat to leave the diggings.
1851		M. Reid Scalp-Hunters I 283: He would not rest satisfied with the trial already made, but would either beat the ‘Injun’ or be himself ‘whipped into shucks.’.
1864		Memphis Dly Appeal 29 May 1/4: ‘Grant is badly whipped.’ [...] ‘Whipped,’ replied the Yankee, with smothered surprise and anger. ‘Well, I will swear’.
1865		G.A. Sala My Diary in America I 106: The newsboys had been crying about the streets [...] of King having been ‘whipped’ by Heenan.
1873		J. O’Connor Wanderings of a Vagabond 99: The attack was so sudden and unexpected, that the Mayor and his party were whipped before they had time to make hardly a show of resistance.
1887		M. Roberts Western Avernus (1924) 165: He was always fighting and always getting whipped.
1952		B. MacMahon Children of the Rainbow 126: Ye were whipped a cripple only for Dicky Hickey’s tambourine.
1974		(con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 240: You had me whipped.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 577: Pete leaves expectant — Pete returns whipped.

2. (US) drunk, intoxicated.

1851		Kalida Venture (OH) 11 Apr. 2/4: Drunk [...] whipped.
a.1856		Burlington Sentinel in Hall (1856) 461: We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation: [...] whipped.
1932		J.A. Shidler ‘More Stanford Expressions’ in AS VII:6 436: A drunkard is a ‘funnel,’ ‘tank,’ ‘blotter,’ or ‘sponge’; he ‘passes out’, ‘folds,’ ‘melts,’ is ‘whipped,’ if he drinks to unconsciousness.
1973		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 4: whipped – drunk.
1978		R. Price Ladies’ Man (1985) 153: The dope had us both whipped to shit.
1984		Eble Campus Sl. Sept. 7: whipped -She’s whipped: drunk.
1996		Eble Sl. and Sociability 45: Among the synonyms for drunk are [...] trashed, toasted, whipped, and wiped out.

3. dominated, subservient, meek [fig. use of SE].

1934		(con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 289: She looked sort of whipped.
1975		G. Underwood ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L:1/2 69: whipped adj Dull, meek, easily dominated.
1986		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 11: whipped – under control: She really has him whipped.
2003		Simon & Burns ‘Ebb Tide’ Wire ser. 2 ep. 1 [TV script] You’re fuckin’ whipped. Pussy-whipped agin’ an inch of your life.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 115: What the fuck is wrong with you, boy? Are you that whipped?

4. (US) exhausted.

1958		E. Gilbert Vice Trap 72: Right now I want to stretch out [...] I’m whipped.
1972		D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 286: You’d better bring along somebody to fuck her. I’m whipped.
1985		(con. 1969–70) D. Bodey F.N.G. (1988) 292: You guys who come in here like this seem plain fucking tired to me. Whipped.
1991		O.D. Brooks Legs 5: He’s whipped. The road’s got him beat.
2002		J. Ridley Conversation with the Mann 25: Besides being whipped from scraping and scrubbing [...] I didn’t have any time to study.

5. willing to do anything one’s partner demands [fig. use of SE underlined by abbr. pussy-whipped under pussy n.].

1969		Current Sl. IV:1 17: Whipped, adj. Dominated by a girlfriend or wife.
1997–2001		Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 whipped adj 1. obedient to one’s significant other. (‘His girlfriend had him whipped.’).
2016		C. Eble (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2016 11: WHIPPED — under the control of one’s significant other.

6. (US teen) unkempt.

1981

Detroit Free Press (MI) 6 July 17/1: whipped (my hair is whipped) — not neat.

7. (US campus/teen) in love, infatuated.

1987		Eble Campus Sl. Fall 9: whipped – very much in love or infatuated.
1997		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 8: whipped – smitten, in love with [...] ‘John was so whipped over Kate that he never left her side.’.
2003		Eble Campus Sl. Nov.