When someone calls your name, and you turn your head rapidly to respond, but they were actually talking to someone else.
VERBAL WHIPLASH: Say your name is "Gaylord". You're walking down the street and you hear someone say "Gaylord". You react as though they are talking to you, but they are actually talking to their friend, Gaylord.
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That shower whiplash had me streaking through the house... Now I have to explain things to my mother.
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Adjective
Definition
1) Having multiple different interactions rapidly
or
2) Having multiple different interactions rapidly and great periods of loneliness
Adjective
Definition
1) Having multiple different interactions rapidly
or
2) Having multiple different interactions rapidly and great periods of loneliness
The social whiplash I experienced after attending several meetings was extreme.
Jumping from person to person in my messages caused me to have social whiplash.
Jumping from person to person in my messages caused me to have social whiplash.
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Austin went from 88 degrees on Tuesday to 32 degrees on Wednesday, resulting in many people in the area suffering from weather whiplash as their bodies try to adjust.
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"Listening to Herman Cain opine on both soul food and foreign policy left me with a serious case of cognitive whiplash."
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