larrup

noun

ˈler-əp How to pronounce larrup (audio)
Definition of larrupnext
dialect
as in blow
a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument he gave the ball a good larrup with his club, and it easily cleared the ditch

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for larrup
  1. blow
  2. thud
  3. thump
  4. swipe
  5. stroke
  6. slap
  7. punch
  8. whack
Noun
  • But Manchin raced across town from a previous engagement to deliver the fatal blow, 50-49.
    Axios, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The network has struggled to convince media companies to carry it and suffered a big blow when it was dropped by DirecTV in 2022.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of blow
Noun
  • The music of jazz trumpeter Enrico Rava washes over the dining room as solicitous waiters recite the evening’s specials, their delivery unaffected by the thud of bombs falling on a neighborhood nearby.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The yearling scrambled back up its tree, then let go and fell, landing with a sickening thud.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of thud
Noun
  • The White Sox have a major need for power hitting as Jose Abreu, Eloy Jimenez and Yoan Moncada are gone and Andrew Vaughn appears to have misplaced his thump.
    Phil Rogers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Ariel remembered telling Maricela to hurry and then feeling a whoosh and hearing a thump behind him.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of thump
Noun
  • Celebrations last year in Shanghai were marked by huge crowds and revelers using the holiday to take tongue-in-cheek swipes at China’s strict Covid lockdowns and lackluster economy.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
  • At present, credit card providers receive a roughly 2 percent fee on each card purchase, and the swipe fee pays credit card companies for the processing and financing of transactions, fraud prevention on those transactions, along with rewards programs for users of the cards.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of swipe
Noun
  • Particles from smoke can be breathed into the lungs and cause heart attacks, strokes, asthma attacks, and difficulty breathing.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Their incidences of cardiovascular disease –– including strokes, heart attacks and heart failures–– were collected from the national health registers through 2019, according to the study.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of stroke
Noun
  • Normally, anyone walking into a cellar with an eight-figure check is going to expect to set some of the terms of the deal, so the sheer ego slap delivered by the take-it-or-leave-it nature of the offer cleared a host of private buyers from the table.
    Josh Condon, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2024
  • This is yet another tone-deaf slap in the face from our out-of-touch public utilities.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of slap
Noun
  • And yet all that extravagant silliness doesn’t take away from the series’ political punch, which also comes as a surprise.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Don’t be tempted to force the liquid through the filter, which may result in a cloudy punch; be patient and let gravity do its thing.
    SAVEUR Editors, Saveur, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of punch
Noun
  • The Lakers’ switch-heavy scheme that was exploited so effectively by smarter teams threw Minnesota completely out of whack.
    Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
  • First, human interference might be knocking whale behavior out of whack.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of whack
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