- the lash of a whip.
- an abrupt snapping motion or change of direction resembling the lash of a whip.
- a neck injury caused by a sudden jerking backward, forward, or both, of the head: Whiplash resulted when their car was struck from behind.
- a connected series of reverse curves of more or less elliptical form, used as a major design motif in the Art Nouveau style.
- to beat, hit, throw, etc., with or as if with a whiplash.
- to affect adversely, as by a sudden change: new taxes whiplashing corporate earnings.
- a quick lash or stroke of a whip or like that of a whip
- med See whiplash injury
