whip off
whip off verb: to remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement.
Verb
whip off (third-person singular simple present whips off, present participle whipping off, simple past and past participle whipped off)
- To remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement.
- If you but aſſiſt me, I'll engage to whip her off to France, and you ſhall never hear more of her.1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, Act II, page 45
- With a furious energy he jumped from the fence, whipped off his coat, and from its black lining cut with his knife a piece about five inches square.1920 September, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Dalyrimple Goes Wrong”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part III, page 230
Forms of whip off
| third-person singular present | whips off |
|---|---|
| present participle | whipping off |
| past participle | whipped off |
| past | whipped off |
Questions about whip off
- What does whip off mean?
- Whip off means to remove something (especially an item of clothing) with a swift movement.
- What part of speech is whip off?
- Whip off is a verb.
- What is the past tense of whip off?
- The past tense of whip off is whipped off.
Words near whip off in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: whip off (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: “whip off.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/whip_off. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.