nonce-wd. [f. WHIP sb. + -SHIP.] a. (with poss. pron.) Humorous title for a coachman. b. The post of a parliamentary ‘whip.’
1817. Keats, Lett. to Fanny Keats, 10 Sept. I disembark’d from his Whipship’s Coach.
1907. Sat. Rev., 1 June, 671/2. Lord Ribblesdale has flung up the whipship of his party in the Lords, as he does not like the way the Government threaten that House.
