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Whiplash (2014 film)

Whiplash (2014) is Damien Chazelle's drama starring Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons about an abusive jazz conservatory instructor; made from a Sundance-winning 18-minute short, it won 3 of 5 Oscars.

Whiplash (Aespa song)

Whiplash is a 2024 EDM-techno title track by aespa (에스파) from their fifth mini album, released October 21, 2024 by SM Entertainment; it reached No. 8 on the Billboard Global 200 and its music video passed 300 million YouTube views.

Whiplash (EP)

Whiplash (EP) is the fifth mini album by K-pop girl group aespa, released October 21, 2024 by SM Entertainment. Six tracks, EDM-techno title track, 913,234 first-week Hanteo sales, No. 50 on the Billboard 200.

Whipped cream

Whipped cream (crème Chantilly when sweetened) is a foam made by whipping 30–38% fat dairy cream so partially coalesced fat globules stabilize air bubbles; over-whipping yields butter, and plant-based toppings use coconut or palm fats with added emulsifiers.

Whirlwind (Lainey Wilson album)

Whirlwind is Lainey Wilson's fifth studio album, released August 23, 2024 on Broken Bow Records, produced by Jay Joyce, with guest Miranda Lambert; it reached the Billboard 200 top ten and won the 2025 CMA Album of the Year.

Whisker Haven

Whisker Haven is the royal animal kingdom setting of Whisker Haven Tales with the Palace Pets, a Disney Junior animated short series (2015–2018) where the Disney Princesses' Palace Pets, guided by fairy Ms. Featherbon, have adventures.

Whiskey Cavalier

Whiskey Cavalier: ABC spy action comedy-drama created by David Hemingson, starring Scott Foley and Lauren Cohan as FBI and CIA agents; 13 episodes, aired February 24 to May 22, 2019, canceled after one season.

Whiskey in the Jar

Whiskey in the Jar (Whisky in the Jar) is a traditional Irish ballad, Roud 533, about a highwayman betrayed by his lover. Famous versions include The Dubliners (1967), Thin Lizzy (1972, No. 1 in Ireland), and Metallica (1998, 2000 Grammy winner).

Whiskey Myers

Whiskey Myers: American Southern rock band from Palestine, Texas, formed 2007, also once named Lucky Southern. Independent on Wiggy Thump Records; seven albums including the No. 1 Billboard country self-titled 2019 record and 2025's Whomp Whack Thunder.

Whiskey on the Rocks

Whiskey on the Rocks is a 2024 six-part Swedish satirical miniseries from SVT and Disney+ about the 1981 U-137 submarine crisis, starring Rolf Lassgård as Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (film)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a 2016 Paramount comedy-drama directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, starring Tina Fey as Kim Baker, adapted from Kim Barker's memoir The Taliban Shuffle about reporting in Afghanistan.

Whisky

Whisky (whiskey) is a cereal-grain spirit matured in oak. Gaelic uisge beatha, first records Ireland 1405, Scotland 1496; Scotch, bourbon, Irish, and Japanese styles differ by legal definitions, grains, and casks.

Whisky (2004 film)

Whisky is a 2004 Uruguayan comedy-drama by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, starring Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, and Jorge Bolani. A sock-factory owner has his employee pose as his wife; it won Cannes' Prix du Regard Original and FIPRESCI.

Whisky a Go Go

The Whisky a Go Go is a 500-capacity rock nightclub at 8901 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, opened January 1964 by Elmer Valentine after a Paris discotheque. Birthplace of go-go dancing, home of The Doors' 1966 residency, Rock Hall inductee 2006.

Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore! (1949), also released as Tight Little Island, is Alexander Mackendrick's Ealing Studios comedy debut based on Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel about Hebridean islanders salvaging whisky from a shipwreck, inspired by the 1941 SS Politician wreck off Eriskay.

Whisper (귓속말) (TV series)

Whisper (귓속말, Gwitsotmal) is a 2017 SBS Korean legal thriller, 17 episodes, written by Park Kyung-soo, starring Lee Bo-young and Lee Sang-yoon, finale rated 20.3% nationwide.

Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば)

Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば, Mimi o Sumaseba) is Studio Ghibli's 1995 animated film directed by Yoshifumi Kondo, scripted by Hayao Miyazaki from Aoi Hiiragi's manga, about reader Shizuku and Seiji Amasawa in Tama, Tokyo.

Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith is Frank H. Spearman's 1906 railroad-detective character, adapted into films from 1916 (J. P. McGowan, Helen Holmes) through the 1948 Alan Ladd Technicolor Paramount Western, plus a 1952 RKO film and 1961 Audie Murphy NBC series.

Whispers of Fate (水龙吟)

Whispers of Fate (水龙吟, Shui Long Yin) is a 2025 Chinese fantasy wuxia drama adapted from Teng Ping's novel Qianjie Mei, starring Luo Yunxi as Tang Lici, directed by Chen Zhoufei and Qian Jingwu, premiered October 24, 2025 on MangoTV and Migu Video in 40 episodes.

Whistle (2025 film)

Whistle (2025) is a Corin Hardy supernatural horror film, written by Owen Egerton, starring Dafne Keen and Sophie Nélisse; teens find an Aztec death whistle that accelerates their fated deaths. TIFF premiere, 2026 release, mixed reviews.

Whistle (music)

"Whistle" (휘파람) is a 2016 song by South Korean girl group BLACKPINK, released with "Boombayah" on their debut single album Square One and a number-one hit in Korea.

Whistle Down the Wind

Whistle Down the Wind: 1961 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, produced by Richard Attenborough, from Mary Hayley Bell's story, in which Lancashire children mistake fugitive Alan Bates for Jesus; also a 1996 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

Whistle register

Whistle register (M3), also called flageolet or flute register, is the highest human vocal register, sustained pitched tones above about 1000 Hz. Imaging shows vocal folds vibrating, not an aeroacoustic whistle; sopranos use it above C6.

Whistler's Mother

Whistler's Mother, properly Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, is James McNeill Whistler's 1871 oil portrait of his mother Anna McNeill Whistler, painted in London, bought by France in 1891, and held at the Musée d'Orsay.

WhistlinDiesel

WhistlinDiesel, Cody Shane Detwiler, is an American YouTuber known for automotive videos and durability tests. In 2025, he was indicted for tax evasion over a Ferrari F8 Tributo.

Whit Bissell

Whit Bissell (Whitner Nutting Bissell), American character actor (1909-1996) of film and television, known for 1950s sci-fi mad-scientist roles in I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Creature from the Black Lagoon, and as Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk in The Time Tunnel.

Whitaker family

Whitaker family of Marsala and Palermo: Anglo-Sicilian wine merchants (c. 1820) behind Marsala wine and Mozia excavations; today Tenuta Whitaker, a 2007 Fondazione Whitaker–Tasca d'Almerita partnership producing organic Grillo Mozia in Sicily.

Whitbread

Whitbread PLC (WTB, FTSE 100) is a British hospitality company founded in 1742 as a brewery, now the owner of Premier Inn, the UK's largest hotel brand with 86,000+ rooms, plus a growing German estate; it sold Costa in 2019 and is exiting branded restaurants.

White & Nerdy

"White & Nerdy" is a 2006 "Weird Al" Yankovic parody of Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" featuring Krayzie Bone, from Straight Outta Lynwood; his only Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 (No. 9) and first platinum single.

White Bear (Black Mirror)

White Bear is season 2, episode 2 of Black Mirror (Channel 4, 18 February 2013), written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Carl Tibbetts, starring Lenora Crichlow as amnesiac Victoria Skillane, hunted in the White Bear Justice Park punishment facility.