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third-person singular simple present whups, present participle whupping, simple past and past participle whupped
(Southern US or African-American Vernacular, dialect) Alternative form of whoop (“to whip, thrash, or defeat”). quotations examples
We had him stopped the year before, the time we whupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: we tarred him out so bad he had to wait.
1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga
I used to whup you four games out of five.What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.
1986, August Wilson, Fences