Learned English with crazy dude carrying whip (8)
I believe the answer is:
educated
'learned' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
'english with crazy dude carrying whip' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'crazy' indicates an anagram.
'carrying' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'whip' becomes 'cat' (cat o' nine tails, cat for short is a type of whip).
'dude' anagrammed gives 'dued'.
'dued' placed around 'cat' is 'ducated'.
'e'+'ducated'='EDUCATED'
(Other definitions for educated that I've seen before include "Erudite" , "Trained; learned" , "Cultivated, knowledgeable" , "Having completed schooling, well informed" , "Schooled, enlightened" .)