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whack
1[ wak, hwak ]
verb (used with object)
- to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- Slang. to divide into or take in shares (often followed by up ):
Whack the loot between us two.
verb (used without object)
- to strike a smart, resounding blow or blows.
noun
- a smart, resounding blow:
a whack with his hand.
- Informal. a trial or attempt:
to take a whack at a job.
Synonyms: , ,
- Slang. a portion or share.
verb phrase
- Slang. to produce quickly or, sometimes, carelessly:
She whacks out a short story every week or so.
- to cut off or separate with a blow:
The cook whacked off the fish's head.
- Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.
whack
2[ wak, hwak ]
noun
- a variant of wack 1( def ).
whack
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verb
- to strike with a sharp resounding blow
- informal.usually passive to exhaust completely
- informal.tr; usu foll by in or on to put something on to or into something else with force or abandon
whack on some sunscreen
noun
- slang.tr to murder
if you were out of line you got whacked
- a sharp resounding blow or the noise made by such a blow
- informal.a share or portion
- informal.a try or attempt (esp in the phrase have a whack at )
- out of whack informal.out of order; unbalanced
the whole system is out of whack
interjection
- an exclamation imitating the noise of a sharp resounding blow
Derived Forms
- ˈ·É³ó²¹³¦°ì±ð°ù, noun
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- ·É³ó²¹³¦°ì·±ð°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of whack1
Idioms and Phrases
- out of whack, Informal. out of order or alignment; not in proper condition.
More idioms and phrases containing whack
- have a crack (whack) at
- out of kilter (whack)
Example Sentences
"I got whacked over the head yesterday trying to get into my car... it was getting to the stage where it was attacking people with consistency."
The challenge of writing about “Liberation Day†is that it is so incandescently stupid it amounts to a conceptual piñata: You can whack at it from any angle and get some reward for your effort.
I loved a gag where Paul gets whacked from one side of the frame by a bird and from the other side by a duffel bag.
"Everybody Here Wants You – whack that on," he says.
Down the way on the Third Street Promenade, resounding whacks of pickleball volleys pop out of a 1960s-vintage storefront last occupied by shoe seller Adidas.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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