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whale
verb- to beat someone UK, 1790
- Dreamer’s the guy who whaled on your knee, right? — Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself, p. 187, 1984
- to have sex US
- There’s one thing about whalin’ on booze–it kills all kinds of bad taste. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 57, 1967
- — Peter Smith and Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, 1985
- to play music with passion and gusto US
- I saying yes and the night after the Red Drum session where Art Blakey was whaling like made and Thelonious Monk sweating leading the generation[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 84, 1958
- A cool cat named Nat was whaling the drums at this hot spot in the heart of the slums. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 9, 1959
- He talked up to me and said, “Babs, I play piano. May I sit in?” I said “sure c’mon whale some.” — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 61, 1967
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