# Do you know what this means? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 9, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579 "2005-04-09T17:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/1 "2005-04-09T17:46:32Z")
The term ‘whip a shittie’ is common in my experience. Do you know what it refers to? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/2 "2005-04-09T17:47:59Z")
No. No I don’t. Never seen or heard it before in my life. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/3 "2005-04-09T18:00:10Z")
We usually whip a youie (U-turn). ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/4 "2005-04-09T18:04:46Z")
Nope, I don’t know either. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/5 "2005-04-09T18:12:59Z")
From [this site](http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/4832/wslang.html) : > [@](#): > > **whip a shittie** > turn a car in a tight circle so that the rear fishtails, heard from a native of the area of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1996. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/6 "2005-04-09T18:16:40Z")
When it’s snowy and icy out, we call that flippin’ shitties. “Y’all wanna go flip some shitties tonight? Gotta snow storm commin’…” I guess either way, it’s to purposely fishtail the car. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/7 "2005-04-09T18:16:51Z")
I’ve been to 36 states, but I can’t say I’ve ever heard that expression. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/8 "2005-04-09T18:35:15Z")
Without the definition, I would have assumed it was something monkeys do! ---
**Author:** ![UselessGit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/74df32/32.png) [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/9 "2005-04-09T18:40:02Z")
I try to refrain from it in public, I can tell you that much. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/10 "2005-04-09T18:51:30Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > We usually whip a youie (U-turn). Where I come from, making a U-turn is called “_hanging_ a youie.” I’ve never heard the phrase, “whip a shittie.” Must be one of those weird Canadian things. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/11 "2005-04-09T19:04:28Z")
I’ve heard “make a youie” but I would never have thought “whip a shittie” meant the same thing. Ever. GT ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/12 "2005-04-09T19:40:28Z")
22, grew up in Buffalo, heard “hang a youie” but not “whip a shittie.” ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/13 "2005-04-09T19:59:02Z")
New to me. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/14 "2005-04-09T20:09:37Z")
If I was a suspicious type, I’d think **Ginger** was making this up to yank our collective chains… Never heard the phrase before. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/15 "2005-04-09T20:09:40Z")
It was once on a dialect survey I saw, as a synonym of “to do donuts.” ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/16 "2005-04-09T20:36:27Z")
New to me… ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/17 "2005-04-09T20:41:37Z")
I have heard it. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/18 "2005-04-09T20:42:39Z")
I should add that in my experience it meant to do a U-turn ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/19 "2005-04-09T21:19:20Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > It was once on a dialect survey I saw, as a synonym of “to do donuts.” [Looks like a Minnesota colloquialism.](http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_77.html) (Eau Claire, WI is about an hour from the Twin Cities on I-94.) ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579/20 "2005-04-09T21:38:00Z")
I’ve heard it, but not until I was in Maine for college - never heard it growing up in Tennessee. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-what-this-means/298579.md?page=2)