Usually means: Neck injury from rapid movement.
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  1. whiplash: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whiplash: Merriam-Webster
  3. whiplash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whiplash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whiplash: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Whiplash, whiplash: Wordnik
  8. whiplash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whiplash: Wiktionary
  10. whiplash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whiplash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  14. whiplash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. whiplash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Whiplash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. whiplash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  21. whiplash: FreeDictionary.org
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  3. whiplash: Legal dictionary

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  1. whiplash: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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(Note: See whiplashing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) The lash of a whip.
noun:  An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip.
noun:  (figurative) An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock.
verb:  To jerk back and forth; to buffet.
verb:  To lash as if with a whip.

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