Usually means: Control or advantage over others.
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  1. whip hand, the whip hand: Merriam-Webster
  2. the whip hand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whip hand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whip hand, the whip hand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. whip hand: Vocabulary.com
  6. whip-hand, whip hand: Wordnik
  7. whip hand: Wiktionary
  8. whip hand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. whip hand: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. whip hand: Dictionary.com
  11. The Whip Hand, Whip Hand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. whip hand: Rhymezone
  13. whip-hand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. whip hand: FreeDictionary.org
  15. whip hand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. whip hand: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whip hand: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whip hand)

▸ noun:  The hand in which a horse rider holds the whip.
▸ noun:  (idiomatic) An advantage over another; the dominant position.

Similar:
upper hand, whip, whipstock, whipmanship, cartwhip, double-line whip, whipcraft, whippe, buggy whip, one-line whip, more...

Opposite:
subordination, inferiority, disadvantage

Phrases:
the whip hand, more...

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Similar:
upper hand, whip, whipstock, whipmanship, cartwhip, double-line whip, whipcraft, whippe, buggy whip, one-line whip, more...

Opposite:
subordination, inferiority, disadvantage

Phrases:
the whip hand, more...



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