subs. (common, but old).—Anything super-excellent: cf. WHOPPER and WHIP, verb.

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  1530.  HEYWOOD, ‘The Four P.’s [Palmer, Pardoner, Poticary, Pedlar] [DODSLEY, Old Plays (1744), i. 103].

          Pardoner.  Mark wel this, this relique heer is a WHIPPER,
My freend unfayned, this is a slipper
Of one of the seven slepers, be sure.

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  2.  (old).—A flagellant: see WHIPMASTER.

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  d. 1656.  JOSEPH HALL, The Women’s Vail, 1. A brood of mad hereticks, which arose in the church; whom they called Flagellantes, ‘the WHIPPERS.’

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