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English
Etymology
From whip + -less.
Adjective
whipless (not comparable)
- Without a whip (instrument for beating).
- (politics, of an MP) Having been deprived of party membership as a disciplinary measure, or having relinquished membership, and often not voting to support party policy.
- Hansard, 24 Feb 1995
- spectacle of Conservative Euro-rebels delighting in their disgrace and flaunting their whipless condition, rather than being sad and ashamed of what has happened.
- (informal, of coffee) Without whipped cream.
- (of an antenna) Concealed, with no visible aerial.
- Designed so as to avoid a lashing rebound. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Usage notes
When qualifying a proper noun in the political sense, the adjective is often capitalised, as in Whipless Tories.