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whip-tailed

/hwip-teyld, wip-/US // ˈʰwɪpˌteɪld, ˈwɪp- //

鞭尾,鞭尾的,鞭尾式,鞭状尾巴

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a long, slender tail like a whip.

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.

  • 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.

  • And then you'd whip out your iPhone and pull up that snarky tweet your friend wrote linking to the E!

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

  • 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.

  • She gave him a cavalier little nod, touched her horse with the whip, and a moment later was lost in a cloud of dust.