Definition of "coachwhip" []

• A long whip used by the driver of a horse-drawn coach. (noun)
• Masticophis flagellum, a colubrid snake of North America. (noun)

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• "He had been finely striped from nape to knees with something like a coachwhip, the weals crisscrossing neatly like hemstitching."
• "Forest snakes include cottonmouth moccasin, copperhead, rough green snake, rat snake, coachwhip, and speckled kingsnake."
• "The coachwhip, a snake listed as endangered in Illinois, is restricted to Ecoregion 72l (Illinois Department of Natural Resources, on-line resource “b”; Illinois Natural History Survey, on-line resource)."