a. [f. WHIP v. 6. + -ABLE.] Liable to be whipped.
1839. Richmond Enquirer., 17 Dec., 4/2. Whipping Thaddeus [Stevens], spurring Thaddeus, ranting Thaddeus, said before the nomination that his reluctant allies were in fact ‘whippable’ into the traces.
1853. Blackw. Mag., Dec., 643/2. Two sorrowful, whippable alumni stood each beside a ‘tree of knowledge.’
1881. Phil Robinson, Under the Punkah, 216. The distinctive feature of this period of life [sc. boyhood], is popularly supposed to be that it is a whippable age.
