the concussive effect of the violent mental jerking produced in a listener/reader by the proximal presentation of two wildly incongruous thoughts, ideas, or statements.
"Listening to Herman Cain opine on both soul food and foreign policy left me with a serious case of cognitive whiplash."
by Paper Tiger March 16, 2012
Get the cognitive whiplashmug. 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.
by invicta9110 July 7, 2011
Get the Verbal Whiplashmug. The shock you feel when you mistakenly turn the shower temperature down, causing you to immediately whip the handle too far in the opposite direction, thus freezing you to a popsicle and then boiling you alive in the matter of a split second.
That shower whiplash had me streaking through the house... Now I have to explain things to my mother.
by ThrillingHeroics December 7, 2017
Get the shower whiplashmug. An eighteen-minute short film that follows the journey of an ambitious music student and an aspiring jazz drummer, capturing their intense relationship. This short film's success leads to it being expanded into a 108-minute feature film, exploring themes of ambition, discipline, and the pursuit of excellence in music.
After watching the short film Whiplash, I was blown away by how it perfectly captured the struggle of an aspiring drummer, and I couldn’t believe it got turned into a full-length feature.
by Emotional Cruiser August 8, 2025
Get the Whiplashmug. When something happens in a specific season in a series that you watch that happens so fast, you can't process it right away and it's a pain to connect the dots.
Person 1: Did you see that season of (insert your favorite series here)? Man, it gave me season whiplash.
Person 2: Same. The entire season was rushed. I got a headache just trying to understand it all.
Person 2: Same. The entire season was rushed. I got a headache just trying to understand it all.
by BittersweetGirl October 2, 2018
Get the season whiplashmug. I am currently dating Whiplash Pants.
Sew Also: Yancey pants,
Addicted to Angela Lansbury Porn.
See: Shelby or Fat Baby.
Also, My Ass and my Love
Sew Also: Yancey pants,
Addicted to Angela Lansbury Porn.
See: Shelby or Fat Baby.
Also, My Ass and my Love
by Whiplash by Richard Jeff Yance March 28, 2022
Get the WHIPLASH PANTSmug. The emotional breakdown that you experience as you never hear your parents saying "Good job" as they blatantly believe in the quote from the 2014 movie Whiplash saying "There are no two words in the English language more harmful than 'good job'."
After years of chasing approval and never getting a 'Good job,' I finally hit a wall—talk about Emotional Whiplash!
by Emotional Cruiser September 21, 2025
Get the emotional whiplashmug.