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
When a performer shuffles the cards and finds himself confronted with "carry fish" and "hit piano strings," what would be more natural than to whop the piano with a frozen carp?
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
It was the only chance I got to wear the world champion's jersey and I got whopped.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 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
Percy’s head still throbbed from getting whopped by Blackjack’s hoof, but he didn’t hold that against the horse.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
During the second quarter alone, BP cut various financial liabilities, which include debt, hybrid debt, leases and settlement payments for the Deepwater Horizon disaster, by a whopping $7 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Broad approach: An active fund holding a whopping 800 stocks is beating major indexes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
The record number of candidates also posed practical challenges, such as the need to use large tables to count ballot papers that measured a whopping 90cm in length.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The lawsuit seeks a whopping $1.4 trillion in damages from the company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The car wash event brings in a whopping $876.50.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
