Definition of "whupping"

whupping

verb
1. present participle and gerund of whup
noun
plural whuppings
1. (colloquial) A beating.
  Quotations
  What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.
  1986, August Wilson, Fences
2. (colloquial) A brutal defeat.