whippet• A tangledball of driedgrass raced back towards Aulef like a whippetbound for home.• Nabokov, who is exceedingly peremptory with all translators of Flaubert, renders this as whippet.• He is telling Larry about his whippets.• It took forty-seven stitches to put that whippet back together but it lived.• I knew him once, I knew the whippets.• He ran, often, up the Heath with the whippets, in the deadest night.• Some men thought more about their whippets or their pigeons - they thought nowt of slinging the wife out on the street.