whupping

English

Verb

whupping

1. present participle and gerund of whup

Noun

whupping (plural whuppings)

1. (colloquial) A beating.
   • 1986, August Wilson, Fences:

     What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.

2. (colloquial) A brutal defeat.

   We laid a whupping on that team.