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Flagellation (Latin flagellum, 'whip'),
flogging or
whipping is the act of
beating the
human body with
special implements such as whips, rods, switches...
- Pistol-
whipping or
buffaloing is the act of
using a
handgun as a
blunt weapon,
wielding it as an
improvised club. Such a
practice dates to the time of...
- Foot
whipping, falanga/falaka or
bastinado is a
method of
inflicting pain and
humiliation by
administering a
beating on the
soles of a person's bare feet...
- the last
state to
sentence someone to
whipping in 1963; however, the
sentence was commuted. The last
whipping in
Delaware was in 1952. In
Portugal today...
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whipping knot or
whipping is a
binding of
marline twine or
whipcord around the end of a rope to
prevent its
natural tendency to fray. Some
whippings are...
- A
whipping boy was a boy
educated alongside a
prince (or boy monarch) in
early modern Europe, who
supposedly received corporal punishment for the prince's...
- "
Whipping Tom" was the
nickname given to
attackers involved in
three episodes of ****ual ****aults in
London and the
nearby village of Hackney. In all three...
- "
Whipping Post" is a song by The
Allman Brothers Band.
Written by
Gregg Allman, the five-minute
studio version first appeared on
their 1969
debut album...
-
Whipping Girl: A Trans****ual
Woman on ****ism and the
Scapegoating of
Femininity is a 2007 book by the
gender theorist, biologist, and
writer Julia Serano...
- Look up
whipping boy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
whipping boy was a
young boy
educated with a
prince and
punished in his place.
Whipping boy or...
