Affirmative defense. An affirmative defense to a civil lawsuit or criminal charge is a fact or set of facts other than those alleged by the plaintiff or prosecutor which, if proven by the defendant, defeats or mitigates the legal consequences of the defendant's otherwise unlawful conduct.
Quick Answer. In baseball, the acronym WHIP stands for walks plus hits per inning pitched and is a way of measuring the efficacy of a pitcher. WHIP essentially measures the number of base runners allowed by each pitcher and is used in sabermetric player analysis. Continue Reading.
1. countable noun. 1  A whip is a long thin piece of material such as leather or rope, fastened to a stiff handle. 2  If someone whips a person or animal, they beat them or hit them with a whip or something like a whip. 3  If something, for example the wind, whips something, it strikes it sharply.