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whop

UK/wɒp/US/wɑp/

whop verb: to throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.

Verb

whop (third-person singular simple present whops, present participle whopping, simple past and past participle whopped)

  1. (informal, transitive) To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
    • He angrily whopped the book onto the table.
    • Then I'd wake up an' screech and roar—then off to sleep again—to dream that Spanker had run away with me, or that father was whopping me, or some other plaguey thing, till mornin'.1848 October 28, “Collectanea. The First Ice Cream.”, in The Daguerreotype: A Magazine of Foreign Literature and Science; Compiled Chiefly from the Periodical Publications of England, France, and...
  2. (slang, transitive) To administer corporal punishment to.

Noun

whop (plural whops)

  1. A blow or strike.

whop meaning in Urdu

whop in Urdu

ہرانا, پیٹنا, ٹھکائی کرنا

Synonyms of whop

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Forms of whop

Verb
third-person singular presentwhops
present participlewhopping
past participlewhopped
pastwhopped
alternative formwhap
Noun
pluralwhops

Origin of whop

From Middle English whappen, a variant of wappen (“to strike; fling; shoot; stun”), probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse vappa (“to waddle”).

Words formed from whop

Words that rhyme with whop

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Questions about whop

What does whop mean?
Whop means to throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
What is whop in Urdu?
Whop in Urdu is ہرانا, پیٹنا, ٹھکائی کرنا. See Whop meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is whop?
Whop can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce whop?
Whop is pronounced /wɒp/ (UK).
What is the past tense of whop?
The past tense of whop is whopped.

Words near whop in the dictionary

  1. whooting
  2. whoots
  3. whooty
  4. whoozit
  5. whoozits
  6. whop
  7. whopped
  8. whopper
  9. whopper-jawed
  10. whopperjawed
  11. whoppers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: whop (page history and authors); whop (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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