A long, heavy whip with a leather braided handle and lash, traditionally used to control cattle herds.
Compound of 'bull' and 'whip,' naming the tool by its primary purpose. The bullwhip design emerged from South American gaucho traditions and evolved through Australian stockmen to American frontier use, reaching peak iconography in 20th-century adventure fiction.
Bullwhips became movie legend—Indiana Jones made them seem magical, but they're actually physics demonstrations. The tip breaks the sound barrier, which is why a bullwhip 'cracks'—you're literally making a sonic boom.
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