American English pronunciation
How to pronounce whiplash
IPA transcription: ['wɪp,læʃ]
Pronunciation variants: ['wɪp,læʃ][h'wɪp,læʃ]
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Noun
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an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)
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a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
“the whip raised a red welt”
Usage examples
- Marconi and others insisted, instead, that what was happening was the so-called "whiplash effect"...
- Another use of the cervical collar is for strains, sprains or whiplash.
- A potential additional specimen includes a diplodocid whiplash tail.