whup

Example Sentences

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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

And she couldn’t whup us like she wanted to.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck