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Meanings of whiplash in English

Catalan
fuetada

A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object.

        fuetada
        Catalan
        tralla

        An injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)

              tralla
              Usage of whiplash in English
              1
              Methods: Forty-eight consecutive patients were evaluated for whiplash trauma after car accidents.
              Pubmed
              2
              But as far as I could tell, I didn't even have whiplash.
              Changes
              3
              And for all the twittering wise soothsayers, be careful of the whiplash.
              The South African
              4
              Meanwhile, we keep turning the other cheek so fast, we get whiplash.
              Ebony
              5
              Then she stomped on the gas and all but gave me whiplash.
              Side Jobs
              6
              She gave me a severe case of whiplash of the heart, long ago.
              Ringworld
              7
              Under the government's plans, independent medical panels would assess whiplash cases.
              BBC
              8
              Change is natural but the extent of this reinvention has an alarming whiplash.
              News.com.au
              9
              But Fleiss defended the choice since the Mesnick's romantic whiplash involved another contestant.
              Reuters
              10
              It's absolutely exhausting. Individual artists are also experiencing the same kind of whiplash.
              The Guardian
              11
              The emotional and psychological whiplash she must have suffered would have been extreme.
              News.com.au
              12
              Remember to tuck your chin to your chest to prevent whiplash.
              Climbing Magazine
              13
              Habib was behind the wheel, wearing a large foam whiplash collar.
              Hot six
              14
              Radio volume dials were turned up, journalists' necks got whiplash, Twitter was flooded.
              The Irish Times
              15
              The dependency whiplash was an almost inevitable side-effect, but so what?
              Broken angels
              16
              The boy was shaking now, his body jerking in whiplash fashion.
              Armageddon's Children
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