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whoop verb To thrash, beat, defeat (an adversary), drive, exhaust.

c1900 (in 1997 Stoddard Quare Women 88) Many sad stories we heard, how the father drank and “whooped” the mother or of some member of the family who was in the penitentiary or had been murdered. 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile TN) I looked up the tree. I allowed [the mother bear] might have had some cubs there and whooped them up a tree. 1979 Big South Fork OHP-11 He just grabbed up a big whip and went to whooping the both of us.

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