Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

whip up a storm

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English

Syllables: whip up a s-torm
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cause an uproar or controversy.

Example Sentences

"However, moral judgement soon deserted America, as Senator Joseph McCarthy, a junior senator from Wisconsin, whipped up a storm of populist terror at the possibility that the USA was already undermined by communists."
"It was the kind of storm that Liverpool have whipped up so often under Klopp and yet it would blow out, City stabilising and almost nicking it."

Inflected Forms

whips up a storm (present, singular) whipping up a storm (participle, present) whipped up a storm (participle, past) whipped up a storm (past)

Questions

What does whip up a storm mean?: To cause an uproar or controversy.

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