whip
n. countablen. a car, especially one that is expensive or looks very cool. People use this word when they want to sound casual or show off their vehicle.
n. a motor vehicle, particularly an expensive or high-performance automobile. Slang in register; primarily used in African American Vernacular English and hip-hop culture before entering general informal usage.
He just bought a brand new whip with leather seats.
After saving for three years, he finally pulled up to the party in a shiny new whip.
The music video features several vintage whips restored to pristine condition, serving as symbols of the artist's newfound wealth and status within the industry.
From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wipjaną (“to move back and forth”). Some similarity to Sanskrit root वेप् (vep, “shake, flourish”), Latin vibrō (“to shake”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)). The unetymological wh- is probably expressive of the sound of a whip; compare the same development in whisk and onomatopoeias such as whack and whoosh. The political senses are from whipper-in (“huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering”), 18th century hunting terminology.
Informal slang; not suitable for professional or academic writing.