Whiplash (Gladiators) definition

Whiplash (Gladiators)

Topics Whiplash (Gladiators) Definition

WordNet

(1) A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

"The whip raised a red welt"

(2) An injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)

WiktionaryText

the lash of a whip
an injury to the upper spine caused by a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction

To jerk back and forth; to buffet
} Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.}}
To lash as if with a whip
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