| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  hw p, wp |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: whopped, whop·ping, whops
1. To strike with a heavy blow. 2. To defeat soundly; thrash. | | NOUN: | A heavy blow; a sharp thud. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English whappen, variant of wappen, to throw violently.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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