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whip-around

whip-around is the alternative form of whip-round.

Meaning of whip-round

Noun

whip-round (plural whip-rounds)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) A quick collection of money from a group of people, usually for a beneficial purpose.
    • When the war ended, local businessmen had a whip-round to pay for rebuilding a destroyed airport terminal and the bombed-out shops on Tripoli Street in the city centre.2013 October 5, “The can-do city”, in The Economist, page 69

Forms of whip-around

pluralwhip-arounds

Questions about whip-around

What is whip-around the alternative form of?
Whip-around is the alternative form of whip-round.

Words near whip-around in the dictionary

  1. whip top
  2. whip up
  3. whip up a storm
  4. whip zoom
  5. whip zooms
  6. whip-around
  7. whip-arounds
  8. whip-arse
  9. whip-arses
  10. whip-belly
  11. whip-belly vengeance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whip-around (page history and authors); whip-round (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.

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