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whippet

/whip-it, wip-/US // ˈwhɪp ɪt, ˈwɪp- //UK // (ˈwɪpɪt) //

猎犬,鞭打犬,鞭打狗,鞭炮犬

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : one of a breed of small, swift dogs resembling a greyhound, used for hunting rabbits and for racing.
    • : Also called whippet tank . a fast, light tank used by the British in World War I.

Examples

  • And she cared for him, along with a whippet named Jason, until she died at age 74 in 1995.

  • Now the score is settled, the Big Dog can finally accept that the whippet is the winner.

  • A whippet tank crunched over the wreck and covered the group with its multiple pom-poms.

  • I was dropping asleep when a rabbit rushed under the blanket, all of a shiver, and a whippet dog after it.

  • She was a sea whippet, and prior to the war her bowsprit had nosed into all the famed harbours of the seven seas.

  • He scribbled a note on the back of a sales slip and left it at Miss Whippet's post by the stocking counter.

  • Little Miss Whippet, although she was fast at typewriting, was hard put to it to keep up with his correspondence.