Word.ws English Dictionary

buggy whips

buggy whips is the plural of buggy whip.

Meaning of buggy whip

Noun

buggy whip (plural buggy whips)

  1. (historical) A horsewhip with a long stiff shaft and a relatively short lash, used for driving a horse harnessed to a buggy or other small open carriage.
    • When his strawberries were beginning to ripen Dry Valley bought the heaviest buggy whip in the Santa Rosa store. He sat for many hours under the live oak tree plaiting and weaving in an extension to its lash.1907, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson”, in Heart of the West, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., →OCLC, page 259
  2. (figuratively) An obsolete product or technology.
    • went the way of the buggy whip

Questions about buggy whips

What is buggy whips the plural of?
Buggy whips is the plural of buggy whip.

Words near buggy whips in the dictionary

  1. Buggins's turn
  2. buggish
  3. Buggs
  4. buggy
  5. buggy whip
  6. buggy whips
  7. buggyman
  8. buggymen
  9. Bughea de Jos
  10. Bughea de Sus
  11. Bughead

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: buggy whips (page history and authors); buggy whip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “buggy whips.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/buggy_whips. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.