whiplash

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Noun

whiplash (plural whiplashes)

1. the lash of a whip
2. 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

   Synonyms: whiplash injury, whiplash-associated disorder

Translations

• French: coup de fouet
• German: Peitschenriemen
• Italian: colpo di frusta
• Portuguese: chicotada
• Russian: реме́нь кнута́
• Spanish: tralla

Translations

• French: coup du lapin (informal), traumatisme cervical (formal)
• German: Schleudertrauma, Halswirbelsäulenschleudertrauma, HWS-Schleudertrauma, Halswirbelsäulen-Distorsion, HWS-Distorsion, Distorsion der Halswirbelsäule, Schleudertrauma der Halswirbelsäule
• Italian: colpo di frusta
• Portuguese: lesão em chicote
• Russian: хлыстова́я тра́вма
• Spanish: latigazo cervical

Verb

whiplash (whiplashes, present participle whiplashing; past and past participle whiplashed)

1. To jerk back and forth; to buffet
2. To lash as if with a whip

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