dogwhip

English

Etymology

From dog +‎ whip.

Noun

dogwhip (plural dogwhips)

1. A whip intended for use on dogs.
   • 1862, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, A Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts about Art:

     Here the speaker took a dogwhip from his pocket...

   • 1950, Wilhelm Stekel, Eden Paul, Technique of Analytical Psychotherapy:

     On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip.

Hypernyms

• whip

Verb

dogwhip (third-person singular simple present dogwhips, present participle dogwhipping, simple past and past participle dogwhipped)

1. (transitive, rare) To beat with a dogwhip.
   • 2013, David Drake, S. M. Stirling, Hope Reborn:

     The officers cursed and dogwhipped their way through to fall into a ragged line before Raj where he waited with the signallers and Battalion standard; the companies fell in to the shouted commands of their NCOs […]