thwack
IPA: θwˈɔk
noun
- An act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; a whack; also, a powerful stroke involved in such hitting; a blow, a strike.
- A dull or heavy slapping sound.
verb
- (transitive)
- To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
- (also figuratively) To drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting; to knock.
- To pack (people or things) closely together; to cram.
- (figuratively) To decisively defeat (someone) in a contest; to beat, to thrash.
- (obsolete) To crowd or pack (a place or thing) with people, objects, etc.
- (intransitive)
- To fall down hard with a thump.
- (obsolete) To be crammed or filled full.
- (obsolete, rare) Of people: to crowd or pack a place.
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Examples of "thwack" in Sentences
- Feel free to trout thwack me in response.
- Please thwack me upside the head for that.
- The sound thwack of the screen door hitting the frame.
- But as you say, not a big deal, just a thwack to the ego.
- I wouldn't hestitate to thwack a user in those circumstances.
- I kept expecting the teacher's ruler to thwack down on my fingers.
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