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whip through

whip through verb: to do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.

Verb

whip through (third-person singular simple present whips through, present participle whipping through, simple past and past participle whipped through)

  1. (idiomatic) To do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.

Forms of whip through

third-person singular presentwhips through
present participlewhipping through
past participlewhipped through
pastwhipped through

Questions about whip through

What does whip through mean?
Whip through means to do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.
What part of speech is whip through?
Whip through is a verb.
What is the past tense of whip through?
The past tense of whip through is whipped through.

Words near whip through in the dictionary

  1. whip stitched
  2. whip stitches
  3. whip stitching
  4. whip the cat
  5. whip the pants off
  6. whip through
  7. whip together
  8. whip top
  9. whip up
  10. whip up a storm
  11. whip zoom

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