To run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch. He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, where he whipped off a full tankard, and coming back whipped off a fellow’s hat from his head.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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