whup

English

Verb

whup (third-person singular simple present whups, present participle whupping, simple past and past participle whupped)

1. (Southern US or African-American Vernacular, dialect) Alternative form of whoop (“to whip, thrash, or defeat”).
   • 1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga:

     We had him stopped the year before, the time we whupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: we tarred him out so bad he had to wait.

   • 1986, August Wilson, Fences:

     I used to whup you four games out of five.
     What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.