whupping
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]whupping
- present participle and gerund of whup
Noun
[edit]whupping (plural whuppings)
- (colloquial) A beating.
- 1986, August Wilson, Fences:
- What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.
- (colloquial) A brutal defeat.
- We laid a whupping on that team.