whack
IPA: wˈæk
noun
- The sound of a heavy strike.
- The strike itself.
- The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
- (US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
- (originally UK cant, somewhat dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
- (obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
- (US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
- (dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).
- (typography, computing, slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
verb
- To hit, slap or strike.
- (slang) To assassinate, bump off.
- (transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
- (sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
- (UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
adjective
- Alternative form of wack (“crazy”) [(originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, corny, cringy, uncool, messed up.]
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Examples of "whack" in Sentences
- I decided to take a whack at it.
- Please take another whack at it.
- Friendly, lots of vandal whacking.
- I'll have a whack at it in a second.
- If anyone can have a whack at this...
- Instead of whack a mole, whack a wiki.
- I've whacked at the offending sentence.
- This place is indeed extremely whacked.
- They'd be happy that they whacked the bastard.
- He does stuff like whack the vandalism and kneecap the vandals that do it.
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