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• n  a mixer incorporating a coil of wires; used for whipping eggs or cream
• n  a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes
• v  move somewhere quickly
  The President was whisked away in his limo
• v  move quickly and nimbly
  He whisked into the house
• v  brush or wipe off lightly
• v  whip with or as if with a wire whisk
  whisk the eggs

• Greeting his guests at Nairobi's Embakasi Airport, Jomo looked jaunty with a yellow rose in his lapel, a fly whisk in one hand and a gold-tipped ebony walking stick in the other.
• In Houston, the Bellaire News, which is a combination of a newsstand and a smut shop, is taking applications for the job of topless chauffeur who will whisk tourists in a black .
• The story that got Baker in trouble featured, in addition to the ceiling fan, acts performed with superglue, a steel-wire whisk, a metal clamp, a spreader bar, a hot curling iron .

• whisk broom
• whisk off
• whip

News & Articles

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• Inspector gadget: Sometimes bigger isn't better
  Mini Whisk It might look like a child's toy, but people actually find this 7-inch Fox Run Mini Chrome Whisk useful for adult purposes.
  June 12, 2013 - The News-Press
• Shortcut to greatness: Add fruit and this recipe for a delectable creation
  Step 1: When making shortcake, in a large bowl, whisk together flour, 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder and salt. Brian Peterson/Minneapolis Star Tribune
  June 12, 2013 - Santa Fe New Mexican
• A questionable woman in the synagogue?
  Ah! How authors wax poetic about the allure of a vulnerable woman! How tempting it is for that mensch in shining armor to whisk that vulnerable waif off her delicate feet and carry her away on his white horse, how tempting to rescue her from unnamed perils, and especially from her own demons.
  June 12, 2013 - The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles

Quotes

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• Jim Moran in FOXNews
  Defendants might as well have said: Beneficent creatures from the 17th Dimension use this bracelet as a beacon to locate people who need pain relief, and whisk them off to their homeworld every night to provide help in ways unknown to our... Frank Easterbrook http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_H._Easterbrook&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGnjaO-wcBpPgkLGBFMJKYnSWK_ag Houston Chronicle http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5434035.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFAPwoZLmVZySj4WPLVb5LOiAfuIQ Jan 7, 2008 109984 144117 whisk All Americans want to hold terrorists accountable, but if we try to redefine the nature of torture, whisk people into secret detention facilities and use secret evidence to convict them in special courts, our actions do in fact embolden our...