Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To beat, flog, or thrash.
  • noun A blow.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To flog; thrash.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. To beat or flog soundly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to beat or thrash
  • noun backchat or rudeness

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb give a spanking to; subject to a spanking

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps from Dutch larpen, to slap, thrash, from larp, rod, whip.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Origin uncertain. Many dictionaries suggest a connection with larpen, Dutch, 'to thresh with flails'.

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Examples

  • In the broad and piebald field of eliptonic bibliophany, I will admit to being a sucker for Beauty, either as a physical artifact -- Manly Palmer Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages being the epitome here -- or in prose style, which is far less common, though Charles Fort's rhetorical swoop and staccato larrup is a Mauve Decade ironist's delight.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005

  • They declared that the long arm of British Imperialism, clutching for gold, had pursued them even into their last refuges; and Mr. Chamberlain rejoined, in effect, that they were refusing to give civil rights to the modern productive elements who were making nine-tenths of the wealth of their country, because they were afraid they would no longer be allowed to larrup their own Kaffirs.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • ZOE-FANNY: I let him larrup it into me for the fun of it.

    Ulysses 2003

  • They declared that the long arm of British Imperialism, clutching for gold, had pursued them even into their last refuges; and Mr. Chamberlain rejoined, in effect, that they were refusing to give civil rights to the modern productive elements who were making nine-tenths of the wealth of their country, because they were afraid they would no longer be allowed to larrup their own Kaffirs.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • They declared that the long arm of British Imperialism, clutching for gold, had pursued them even into their last refuges; and Mr. Chamberlain rejoined, in effect, that they were refusing to give civil rights to the modern productive elements who were making nine-tenths of the wealth of their country, because they were afraid they would no longer be allowed to larrup their own Kaffirs.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • With a scream, she began to larrup me with the drowned object again.

    A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

  • "Toby," says she, "go and see the old gentleman; perhaps it might comfort him to larrup you a little."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various

  • "There, Lynne Maximilian Catt!" she exclaimed in a voice tense with passion, "you will never use that pair to larrup me with again."

    Tabitha at Ivy Hall Ruth Alberta Brown

  • When dey got him back to de house, dey would buckle him down over a barrel and larrup him wid a plaited whup.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

  • 'I'll larrup the d---- d' ooman ony how, and ye, too, ef ye say much more. '

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

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  • An Oak Grove-ism, where if a food is "larrupin'" it is so good that your tongue will come out of your mouth and beat you around the head for more.

    September 8, 2008

  • As the child got larruped the mother felt bad. bitbritt22

    July 27, 2012