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whipship

whipship noun: the role or status of parliamentary whip.

Noun

whipship (countable and uncountable, plural whipships)

  1. The role or status of parliamentary whip.
    • He believed that whips in the House of Commons had sometimes stepped from their whipships into peerages; […]1881, Parliamentary Debates, volume 34, Victoria: Parliament, page 1025
    • He lost his whipship.1971, Peggy Duff, Left, Left, Left, page 59

Forms of whipship

pluralwhipships

Origin of whipship

From whip + -ship.

Questions about whipship

What does whipship mean?
Whipship means the role or status of parliamentary whip.
What part of speech is whipship?
Whipship is a noun.
What is the plural of whipship?
The plural of whipship is whipships.

Words near whipship in the dictionary

  1. whipsaws
  2. whipsawyer
  3. whipsawyers
  4. whipscorpion
  5. whipscorpions
  6. whipship
  7. whipships
  8. whipsman
  9. whipsmart
  10. whipsmen
  11. Whipsnade

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