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
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
“I mean, we take it for what it is: We got whupped, plain and simple,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2016
Then again, life and career were dead-serious to Rivers, for whom every challenger, including the younger female comics, deserved to be whupped in a cage match.
From Time ● Sep. 4, 2014
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
“They weren’t used to seeing people like us go up there and put a whupping on,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
Mondale’s defeat at the hands of the incumbent Republican, Ronald Reagan, was a historic whupping.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
“I was so moved to see this boy come out and just start whupping ass from the jump,” Johnson said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2020
It wasn’t Mr. Ryan who’d saved Roy from a whupping in the closet; it was Beatrice Leep.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
