whipping post

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   post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped

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Questions about whipping post

What does whipping post mean?

whipping post means "post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped".

Is whipping post a common word?

whipping post is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.