whup
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"They pitched a heck of a game. I think it was mandatory to want to go out and whup them."
From Fox News ● Aug. 26, 2021
Several years after Sam “Bam” Cunningham helped an integrated USC football team whup an all-white Alabama team in 1970, Cunningham traveled to Montgomery, Ala., for a golf tournament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2016
He moves like a slow mummy, and there ain’t no mummy gonna whup the great Muhammad Ali.
From Time ● Jun. 4, 2016
He promoted that fight by saying: “You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned. Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2016
"When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul—though you still Sauls around on the side."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
“They whupped us up front,” Bruins backfield coach Ron Hudson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
“They made adjustments and did a great job. It’s just one of those games that you get whupped in every single category you can look at.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2016
“They kilt us but they ain’t whupped us yet,” because we know that the work remains.
From Time ● Nov. 9, 2016
In the 1987 documentary “Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll,” Lewis says of him, “We got in a fight—that’s when we become friends. He whupped my butt.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 18, 2016
She never whupped us with it because it was too valuable: a fine polished maple shaft with a brass bullet tip.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Though, I must say, the NHL’s last Game 7 featured the New York Rangers whupping Carolina 6-2 last season.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023
“This dress is whupping me,” one could be heard complaining in a closed stall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Mondale’s defeat at the hands of the incumbent Republican, Ronald Reagan, was a historic whupping.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
The prize was smaller because of a different primary calendar, but the whupping more thorough.
From Fox News ● Mar. 9, 2020
She was a southpaw for whupping, and she had arthritis in that elbow, so while she could still whup, it didn’t make much of an impression.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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