whipped

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past tense and past participle of whip.

   He whipped the horses into a gallop as the storm closed in.

   The batter had been whipped into a smooth, airy froth.

   Note

   A regular past form, with the final p doubled before -ed. One spelling serves both the simple past (he whipped the horses) and the participle after have or be (it had been whipped), so the surrounding words show which is meant. The participle of the kitchen sense, mixing something rapidly to aerate it, settles into the cooking adjective of whipped cream.

2. 2
   adjective

   Of food: made light and airy by beating or whisking air into it.

   The pie was crowned with a generous swirl of whipped cream.

   He folded the whipped egg whites into the batter to help it rise.

   Similarbeaten

3. 3
   adjectiveslang

   Extremely tired and completely worn out; drained of all energy.

   Like a wrung-out cloth with nothing left to give.

   Three back-to-back meetings left him absolutely whipped.

   The whole team was whipped after playing two games in a single day.

   Similarexhausted, tired, drained, weary, spent

   Oppositerested, energetic

   Note

   Slang for exhaustion, at home in speech and in comic strips. In 2003, Tom Armstrong's Marvin has a parent tell a partner "you're totally whipped." It comes after be or look and readily takes intensifiers like totally and absolutely, much as its near-synonym whacked does. Because the "henpecked" slang uses the same frame, context decides the meaning: a long day points to fatigue, and a partner's demands point to the other.

4. 4
   adjectiveslangabbreviationellipsis

   Ellipsis of pussywhipped.

   The guys joked that marriage had left him completely whipped.

   She runs the whole household, and honestly he's pretty whipped.

   Note

   A clipped form that leaves the cruder half unsaid. The full pussywhipped is vulgar as well as slang, and often implies that the submission is traded for the prospect of sex. Whipped keeps the picture of a man dominated by his partner but drops the vulgar first element, which makes it safer in casual talk. It usually follows be or seem (he's whipped), and it sits close to henpecked and under the thumb, which are milder.

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