Definition of "horsewhip" []

• A whip used to control a horse. (noun)
• To beat with or as if with a horsewhip. (verb-transitive)

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• "In my confused state, I moved out but not fast enough as he (the cold looking brother of my boss) approached me with horsewhip!"
• "Now, if the Democrats had said, "Republicans take Medicare out behind the Cannon Office Building and horsewhip it," that's a different story."
• "In the 1930s, when Fry was around 9 or 10, he said his father dragged him to the barn and started beating him with a horsewhip for no apparent reason."