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Whipless
(political, of an MP) Having been deprived of party membership as a disciplinary measure, or having relinquished membership, and often not voting to support party policy.
📖 Definitions of "Whipless"
adjective
- 1
(political, of an MP) Having been deprived of party membership as a disciplinary measure, or having relinquished membership, and often not voting to support party policy.
"... spectacle of Conservative Euro-rebels delighting in their disgrace and flaunting their whipless condition, rather than being sad and ashamed of what has happened. (Hansard, 24 Feb 1995)."
- 2
(informal, of coffee) Without whipped cream.
- 3
Without a whip (as in horse racing).
- 4
(of an antenna) Concealed, with no visible aerial.
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