Word.ws English Dictionary

coachwhip

coachwhip noun: a long whip used by the driver of a horse-drawn coach.

Noun

coachwhip (plural coachwhips)

  1. A long whip used by the driver of a horse-drawn coach.
  2. Masticophis flagellum, a colubrid snake of North America.
  3. Fouquieria splendens (ocotillo).

Forms of coachwhip

pluralcoachwhips

Origin of coachwhip

Compound of coach + whip

Questions about coachwhip

What does coachwhip mean?
Coachwhip means a long whip used by the driver of a horse-drawn coach.
What part of speech is coachwhip?
Coachwhip is a noun.
What is the plural of coachwhip?
The plural of coachwhip is coachwhips.

Words near coachwhip in the dictionary

  1. coachway
  2. coachways
  3. coachweed
  4. coachwheel
  5. coachwheels
  6. coachwhip
  7. coachwhipping
  8. coachwhips
  9. coachwise
  10. coachwoman
  11. coachwomen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: coachwhip (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: “coachwhip.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/coachwhip. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.