whack

noun

to hit

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verb

to beat or strike vigorously as with a stick

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈwæk/ / /ˈʍæk/ / [ˈw̥æk]

adj

Etymology: Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”).

Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”).
“That's whack, yo!”
“As they joked about the big butts on female celebrities and what rappers had the whackest lyrics, Malcolm paid little attention to Kalia besides squeezing her hand or grabbing her arm to hold himself up […]”

noun

The sound of a heavy strike.
The strike itself.
“Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks.”
The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
“C'mon. Take a whack at it.”
“40 bucks a whack.”
A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
“I don’t care about much wine afterwards—I take my whack at dinner—I mean my share, you know; and when I have had as much as I want I toddle up to tea.”
““It’s damned tame, whatever it is, comin’ in here at feedin’ time an’ gettin’ its whack of fish.””
A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
A deal, an agreement.
“"I'll stay if you will." "Good—that's a whack."”
“It's a whack!”
A harmful outcome or repercussion.
“But I rely on you to give me the nod in time to get Cora clear off whatever happens. I can take my own whack as it comes—as I always have done.”
PCP, phencyclidine (also wack).
The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
“del c:\docs\readme.txt Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.”

verb

To hit, slap or strike.
“The bat whacked the baseball.”
“Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades.”
To assassinate, bump off.
“Niko Bellic: So you want me to talk to him? / Jimmy Pegorino: I want you to whack him! And after that I want you to kill all the other rats I surround myself with...”
“Ken Barrett, a loyalist gunman who eventually confessed to killing Mr. Finucane on orders from the paramilitary Ulster Defense Association, told a BBC investigative reporter, John Ware, that when he’d expressed reluctance about “whacking” a solicitor[…]”
To share or parcel out (often with up).
“to whack the spoils of a robbery”
“When the sewer-hunters consider they have searched long enough […] the gang […] count out the money they have picked up, and proceed to dispose of the old metal, bones, rope, &c.; this done, they then, as they term it, “whack” the whole lot; that is, they divide it equally among all hands.”
To beat convincingly; to thrash.
“The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.”
To surpass; to better.
“Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!”
To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning.
“Miss Loi always tells her students not to anyhow whack, stay calm and know thy approach before attempting each question.”
To eat something hurriedly.