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wipsaw

  • n  a saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people
  • v  victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
  • v  saw with a whipsaw

  • THE FOX AND THE HOUND A Walt Disney Production It begins with no music, just a whipsaw wind.
  • If, like me, you're gay and politically conservative, the whipsaw is even more intense.
  • While emotional turmoil is part of being a teenager, Nicole Cabezas is among a growing cohort of kids whose unsteady psyches do not simply rise and fall now and then but whipsaw .
Quotes

  • David Eckstein in guardian.co.uk
    On any Friday, people don't want to be short over the weekend,Eckstein says. "It created a vacuum - it was a real whipsaw."
  • Roger Toussaint in Village Voice
    Toussaint told the labor bigs that the MTA, with Bloomberg's encouragement, was trying to "go through the backdoor by imposing it on us, and then using us to whipsaw other unions into accepting it as well."
  • John Thain in Forbes
    Fully electronic markets cannot respond well to these types of events, and so prices whipsaw,Thain said last year. "Specialists and floor brokers minimize such volatility."

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