whop
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She notes that professional female boxers would whop a man off the street, and that women are keen marksmen.
From Economist ● May 14, 2015
“To whop someone with unprecedented, $1 million sanctions that are going to drive someone out of business over this testimony is … egregious,” said Raynor, who has one child still in college.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2015
"It's still kind of fun to be able to whop it off the first tee and be part of a great event," Nicklaus said.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 7, 2011
Said he: "It was like this: whop and then whop."
From Time Magazine Archive
It seemed like a staggering whop of money.
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
But as a show it often whops the emotions, as a spectacle often tingles the blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gallet's "whops" bade fair to change the scientific world's concept of radar and its potential.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whop′per, one who whops: anything very large, esp. a monstrous lie.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
It's that thing up in her room,—that pious thing that whops over.
From We Girls: a Home Story by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
The Water Wheele 22 feet heigh, wth a Shaft whereon 7 whops, 2 Gudgions and 2 brasses, built about the same tyme, in repaire, valued at 20lb.
From Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls
“The car whopped like a helicopter” when it was turned on, Michael Powell said to laughter, and when Mr. Powell, a car aficionado, tried to drive it, it would only go in reverse.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
Now, after six months of chemotherapy, Caldwell feels “like somebody whopped me,” she said during a visit to Patel’s clinic in late summer.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
A time warp, yes, but a comforting one, soundtracked by the big-string showtunes whopped out by Shirle, Babs, Adele and Catherine Zeta Jones.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2013
Back in 1997, I was less than sympathetic when the electorate whopped his, but on Sky News, the man was a diamond.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2010
His long lank hair was nearly ash-blond, worn long and treasured since he whopped it with a pocket comb unconsciously and often.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Towards the end of day 12, China were sitting pretty at the top of the medals table with a whopping 152 golds.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
By late 2023, prices had fallen to closer to $2 a dozen before rising again, peaking at a whopping $6.23 in March 2025, consumer price data show.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
They faced a whopping 60 shots across both legs with LASK.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
This one-two punch will bring temperatures about 8 degrees higher than normal to areas south of Point Conception and a whopping 10 to 15 degrees higher to the north.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
And if the animal is over 8 years old, I add a whopping 10 days.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
