an abrupt snapping motion or change of direction resembling the lash of a whip.
Also whiplash injury. a neck injury caused by a sudden jerking backward, forward, or both, of the head: Whiplash resulted when their car was struck from behind.
Also called whiplash curve . a connected series of reverse curves of more or less elliptical form, used as a major design motif in the Art Nouveau style.
v. 有主动词 verb
to beat, hit, throw, etc., with or as if with a whiplash.
to affect adversely, as by a sudden change: new taxes whiplashing corporate earnings.
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Just cause “prevents media workers from getting caught in the whiplash of a reactive response from a company to pressure from outside groups, or public reaction… about something that someone may post on social media,” she added.
With a postcard-perfect landscape carved by glaciers, pockmarked by freshwater lakes, studded with granite peaks, and flush with wildflowers, you’ll get whiplash trying to take it all in.
That we’re now meant to cheer her on is whiplash-inducing, and when a movie inspires whiplash, I tend to think it’s trying to do something beyond its most obvious surface-level pleasures.
So I feel like I’m justified in that, you’re going to see me falling and getting whiplash on my board, flying around.
The plot here makes whiplash turns, loop de loops and sudden reversals.
Teller will reteam with his Whiplash director Chazelle on La La Land, which starts shooting in the spring.
Whiplash was shot in just 19 days and then edited in 10 weeks to make Sundance.
We have Damien Chazelle at the beginning of his career with Whiplash.
For Peggy, this season was all about professional success and romantic whiplash.
Much of the action in Whiplash requires serious suspension of disbelief.
Peabody stared, and a streak of crimson leaped into his cheek as if a whiplash had been laid across it.
Anne would have infinitely preferred a whipping to this punishment under which her sensitive spirit quivered as from a whiplash.
Quick as a flash he dealt the other a blow on the cheek, an open-handed blow that stung like a whiplash.
No curses greeted them; no whiplash cut into them; no strong arm jerked them over the harness.
The heavy plaits of the whiplash curled round the legs of the trader, and he writhed.