flexible
A sucker is a vigorous, whippy shoot that emerges from under the ground or from the roots.
She collected a bundle of thin, whippy twigs from the ground.
The bowler has a whippy action and a powerful delivery.

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Backwards, sideways and back and forth
anticlockwise
back and forthidiom
back to frontphrase
backward
backwardly
hither and thitheridiom
laterad
lateral
laterally
libration
reverse
round
saw
stand
step
step aside
swept-back
take someone aside
there and backidiom
wrong

whippyadjective (THIN)

thin:
He had a lean, whippy look and a brown, lined face.
He was younger, whippier, and less predictable than his friend.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Thin and fine
attenuate
attenuated
attenuation
delicate
elongated
hairline
leanly
narrow
narrowness
paper-thin
papery
slender
slimline
slimness
super-thin
superfine
tenuity
thinly
ultra-thin
wispily

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