whip hand

1. 1.

   position of advantage and control

   Synonymsupper hand

   Broadersuperiority

Questions about whip hand

What does whip hand mean?

whip hand means "position of advantage and control".

What is another word for whip hand?

Close synonyms include upper hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whip hand a common word?

whip hand is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.