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The phrase "a whipping" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe the physical punishment of someone with a whip or a similar instrument. For example, "The slave was given a whipping for refusing to obey orders."
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Use it as a whipping horse.
If I'm a whipping boy, I'm a whipping boy".
"We became a whipping boy".
The nickname became a whipping stick for Mr. Royko.
And I certainly don't want to be a whipping post.
The soles of his feet bore scars from a whipping.
Here, a whipping wind added to the difficulty levels.
Critics of welfare, big government and modern architecture all used the project as a whipping boy.
He was lucky, in fact, to escape a whipping from his father for telling a lie.
It is a whipping, meters-tall rapid that surges year round.
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A-stomping and a-whipping, screaming and yelling, threatening and intimidating.
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