whiplike

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From whip + -like.

It was pandemonium, there in the pitchy night, with the heavy roar of Colts and the sharp, whiplike reports of rifles. — Wanted—?, Eugene Cunningham
Tommy tried the uppercut with which he had knocked out the deceased monster, but the quick jerks of the present beetle's head were infinitely faster than the movements of his fists, while the antenna had a whiplike quality about them that speedily convinced him that discretion was the card to play. — Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930, Unknown
He would creep into the burrows made by the great rabbits; and excursionists, sporting on the downs, would see his long, tight, whiplike tail wriggling down a burrow and out of sight, and before they had time to say, "There he goes," his ugly purple head would come poking out from another rabbit-hole--perhaps just behind them--or laugh softly to itself just in their ears. — The Book of Dragons, E. (Edith) Nesbit

flagellate, flagellated, lash-like

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