"pencil whip" meaning in All languages combined

See pencil whip on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-pencil whip.ogg [Australia] Forms: pencil whips [present, singular, third-person], pencil whipping [participle, present], pencil whipped [participle, past], pencil whipped [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} pencil whip (third-person singular simple present pencil whips, present participle pencil whipping, simple past and past participle pencil whipped)
  1. (idiomatic) To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-pencil_whip-en-verb-IPAyAOsp
  2. (idiomatic) To complete a form, record, or document without having performed the implied work or without supporting data or evidence. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-pencil_whip-en-verb-86KrNMX3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: rubber stamp (english: meaning 1)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pencil whip meaning in All languages combined (2.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pencil whips",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pencil whipping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pencil whipped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pencil whipped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "pencil whip (third-person singular simple present pencil whips, present participle pencil whipping, simple past and past participle pencil whipped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved."
      ],
      "id": "en-pencil_whip-en-verb-IPAyAOsp",
      "links": [
        [
          "approve",
          "approve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 73",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Knowing the auditors were coming in just a week, we chose to pencil whip the quarterly inventory forms for the last year."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Airman, volume 42, page 26",
          "text": "So, if you pencil-whipped that last survey, you've probably shot yourself in the foot, according to Stanley.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Shane Bauer, American Prison",
          "text": "“Nothing should be 9:00, 9:15, 9:30, because the auditors say you're pencil-whipping it. And truth be known, we do pencil-whip it. We can't add by fifteen because that really puts you in a bind. Add by fourteen. That looks pretty come audit time. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To complete a form, record, or document without having performed the implied work or without supporting data or evidence."
      ],
      "id": "en-pencil_whip-en-verb-86KrNMX3",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To complete a form, record, or document without having performed the implied work or without supporting data or evidence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-pencil whip.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/En-au-pencil_whip.ogg/En-au-pencil_whip.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/En-au-pencil_whip.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "meaning 1",
      "word": "rubber stamp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pencil whip"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pencil whips",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pencil whipping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pencil whipped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pencil whipped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "pencil whip (third-person singular simple present pencil whips, present participle pencil whipping, simple past and past participle pencil whipped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "approve",
          "approve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To approve a document without actually knowing or reviewing what it is that is being approved."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Knowing the auditors were coming in just a week, we chose to pencil whip the quarterly inventory forms for the last year."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Airman, volume 42, page 26",
          "text": "So, if you pencil-whipped that last survey, you've probably shot yourself in the foot, according to Stanley.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Shane Bauer, American Prison",
          "text": "“Nothing should be 9:00, 9:15, 9:30, because the auditors say you're pencil-whipping it. And truth be known, we do pencil-whip it. We can't add by fifteen because that really puts you in a bind. Add by fourteen. That looks pretty come audit time. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To complete a form, record, or document without having performed the implied work or without supporting data or evidence."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To complete a form, record, or document without having performed the implied work or without supporting data or evidence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-pencil whip.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/En-au-pencil_whip.ogg/En-au-pencil_whip.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/En-au-pencil_whip.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "meaning 1",
      "word": "rubber stamp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pencil whip"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.