larrup \LAR-uhp\,
verb:
To beat or thrash.
When a seagoing canoe beached on the stones, or when a neighbor came larruping from around back of the house, Martha Obenchain, peeling potatoes at a table in the sun, rose and put the kettle on, tickled pink.
-- Annie Dillard, "The Living"
A fast white boat comes larruping around the point from the direction of Mercer Island and banks towards him.
-- Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"
Larrup may derive from the Dutch word larpen meaning "to beat with flails".
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