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1. A blow; a hit; a whop.

2. To strike hard and suddenly.

3. To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.

4. 1844, (w), ''Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories'', Part Two, Chapter 22, Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, pp. 179-180,https://archive.org/details/judgehaliburtons00halirich

He wears his hat a little a one side, rakish-like, whaps his cane down ag’in the pavement hard, as if he intended to keep things in their place, swaggers a few, as if he though he had a right to look big (..)

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1848|author=John Russell Bartlett|title=Dictionary of Americanisms|location=New York|publisher=Bartlett & Welford|page=379|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer00bart

6. {{quote-text|en|year=1902|author=Henry Van Dyke|chapter=The Mill|title=The Blue Flower|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924022206944|page=65|publisher=Scribner|location=New York

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1989|author=John Irving|title=A Prayer for Owen Meany|location=New York|publisher=William Morrow|chapter=9|page=524|url=https://archive.org/details/prayerforowenmeairv00irvi

''She whapped down on the floor.''

''The fish whapped over.''

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10. The curlew, (taxfmt); a whaup.