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flogger

[ flog-er, flawg- ]

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noun

a person who beats another with a whip or stick, especially as punishment:
Each of the detained offenders received ten strokes of a rattan cane from a masked and hooded flogger.
1. a whip used to beat a partner for mutual sexual gratification:
  Many dominants are attached to a favorite flogger or pair of restraints.
2. a person who beats a partner for mutual sexual gratification:
  Since some floggers are rougher than others, give judicious consideration to which of you is to flog the other.
Slang. a person who promotes, advertises, or sells something, especially vigorously or aggressively:
These stickers can be used to keep floggers from coming to your door to cajole and bully you into signing up for bad deals.

Origin of flogger¹

First recorded in 1700–10; flog ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

The sentence of the court was carried out by a scourger, sometimes called flagellator, or flogger.

They were friends of the Bartons, and Old John, the ex-flogger, trained them in the art of cattle-lifting.

It was generally given out as "piece work" to one man, the "master-flogger," as you might term him, who employed the others.

Two should hold her by the arms while the professional flogger seared the white soft back of her.

I no more care for a flogging than a boy does at Eton: and only let the flogger beware—I will be a match for him, I warrant you.

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