whipper-in

[hwip-er-in, wip-]

whip·per-in

[hwip-er-in, wip-]
noun, plural whip·pers-in.
1.
Fox Hunting. a professional or honorary member of a hunt staff who assists the huntsman with the hounds.
2.
British. whip (def. 28).

Origin:
1730–40
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Whipper-in is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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whipper-in
 
n , pl whippers-in
a person employed to assist the huntsman managing the hounds in a hunt

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