Whipping and Shellacking

noun

• Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.
  • synonyms: tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation
• A sound defeat.
  • synonyms: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing
• A sewing stitch passing over an edge diagonally.
  • synonyms: whipstitch, whipstitching
• The act of overcoming or outdoing.
  • synonyms: beating

verb

• Beat severely with a whip or rod.
  • usage: "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
  • synonyms: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
• Defeat thoroughly.
  • usage: "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"
  • synonyms: worst, pip, mop up, whip, rack up
• Thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.
  • usage: "The tall grass whipped in the wind"
  • synonyms: whip
• Strike as if by whipping.
  • usage: "The curtain whipped her face"
  • synonyms: whip, lash
• Whip with or as if with a wire whisk.
  • usage: "whisk the eggs"
  • synonyms: whisk, whip
• Subject to harsh criticism.
  • usage: "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community"
  • synonyms: blister, scald, whip

adjective

• Smart and fashionable.
  • usage: "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines"
  • synonyms: snappy

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Whip.
• a & n. from Whip, v.