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whip-cracker

/hwip-krak-er, wip-/US // ˈʰwɪpˌkræk ər, ˈwɪp- //

鞭炮声,鞭子饼干,鞭炮声声,鞭炮手

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who cracks a whip.
    • : a person who exerts authority, especially excessively or ostentatiously.

Examples

  • Again, I do not know House Majority Whip Scalise or President Obama personally.

  • Just a week before the start of a new Congress, the new House majority whip is fighting for his political life.

  • David Lowery of Camper von Beethoven and Cracker made this case in a viral post from 2012.

  • Given how little time they had to whip this project to the finish line, they accomplished a lot.

  • What he may lack in leadership or due diligence skills, he makes up for in his abilities to whip the media into subservience.

  • Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.

  • And he himself brought her the golden-brown bouillon, in a dainty Sevres cup, with a flaky cracker or two on the saucer.

  • And that was he also in kilts, at the age of five, wearing long curls and holding a whip in his hand.

  • As commander-in-chief, Bonaparte, for the time being, held the whip hand and could show his dislike by severe reprimands.

  • The memory of the hawk-nosed, steel-eyed officer who rode from Kurnaul to Meerut in twenty-four hours smote him like a whip.