whiplash

English

Etymology

whip +‎ lash

Noun

Wikipedia whiplash (plural whiplashes)

1. the lash of a whip
2. an injury to the upper spine caused by a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction

Synonyms

• whiplash injury (2)

Translations

lash of a whip

Dutch: zweepslag (nl) Finnish: piiskanisku French: coup de fouet (fr) m.

German: Peitschenriemen (de) m. Italian: colpo (it) m. di (it) frusta (it) f. Spanish: tralla f.

whiplash injury

Finnish: piiskaniskuvamma French: coup du lapin (fr) m. (informal), traumatisme (fr) cervical (fr) m. (formal)

German: Schleudertrauma (de) n. Italian: colpo di frusta (it) m.

Verb

whiplash (third-person singular simple present whiplashes, present participle whiplashing, simple past and past participle whiplashed)

1. To jerk back and forth; to buffet
   • 2008 December 23, Nicholas Confessore, “Resistance to Kennedy Grows among Democrats”:

     […] Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.

2. To lash as if with a whip
   • 1990, V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina^[1], ISBN 0671729462, page 98:

     After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.