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 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
“If you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned, wait till I whup Foreman’s behind,” he told David Frost.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2016
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
“They whupped us up front,” Bruins backfield coach Ron Hudson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
They’ve won in only one of those four teams’ buildings — facing the Florida squad that just whupped them.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
“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
My opponent whupped me in all four corners of the ring.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
A 2012 NJ.com profile described his younger self as “a skinny kid who acted tough but hid behind a mom who protected him by whupping on the mothers of the bullies who picked on him.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2021
The prize was smaller because of a different primary calendar, but the whupping more thorough.
From Fox News ● Mar. 9, 2020
“Melo was actually whupping my ass in the little basketball game,” Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson said with a laugh, referring to Ball’s 16-year-old brother LaMelo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2017
He had a prominent mustache and used phrases like “put a whupping on teams” and “take your lumps.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2014
It wasn’t Mr. Ryan who’d saved Roy from a whupping in the closet; it was Beatrice Leep.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
