Word: whack up Part of Speech: verb 1. To divide into shares; divvy. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: We'll whack up fair with you, Hitchcock. In everything you'll get your quarter-share, neither more nor less; and you can take it or leave it. Example: Whack up whatever we have in the larder, and eat that. 2. To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty; to cough up; to shell out. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: A woman does not doubt her husband's work, of course, when manufactures, like home made candy, leaving hubby to pay for the raw materials; or else to take a lodger into the flat for which the same hubby whacks up $37.50 every month. Example: He is approached by some person who tells him that he knows of a homestead that is open, but, of course, it will take a little to secure it: if the intending settler is ready to whack up $1 or $2 an acre, the place can be secured. 3. To cut up or chop up. Labels: slang Example: I have whacked up some wood, and I'm sure of this fact, that it pays to be good. Example: Let's ply the saw and speed her, and whack up elm and cedar, and thus, O gentle reader, our well-known bulwarks guard. 4. To strike someone or something repeatedly or very forcefully. Labels: slang Example: The long check-rein whacked up the leader, and sent the whole team on a brisk trot down the winding grade to the music of a black-snake whip, its sharp notes resounding among the hills and vales of the "blue-grass land." Example: Five months or so have now passed since I was with John in New York and I am now sitting in 'the bunker' at Beggars–the basement floor of the building where Tim can quite happily whack up his bass beats and not disturb the neighbours waiting his arrival. 5. To control or dominate someone or something in a thorough or severe manner. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: District 50 is trying to whack up the AFL- CIO, " said Carlough, "why doesn't the AFL - CIO go out and whack up District 50?" 6. To create or produce in a sudden or haphazard manner. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. Example: Or perhaps you'd like a row of outlets over a workbench. Another guard whacks up metal raceway in minutes. 7. To gather together; to accumulate or come up with. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: The men was all to the Banks, and Counahan he whacked up an iverlastin' hard crowd fer crew. Example: Worships the ground you tread on but can't whack up the ginger to tell you so. 8. To inject an illegal drug. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: If I tried to whack up I wouldn't get a vein it would clog up with blood, the works, the syringe, would clog up with blood and that's it, Example: When I barged in, he had a needle hanging out of his arm... He asked me if I wanted to try it and I did ... I whacked up right then.' 9. To hit, send, or move forward or upward quickly or forcefully. Labels: slang Example: Swinging through, the batter whacks it up the left field line . Example: The sedan careened, flopped over to the right. Its headlights whacked up and then gracefully swept down into emptiness. 10. To increase or raise by a sizeable amount. Labels: idiomatic Example: Every time they need more money, they whack up personal income tax and they spend the money. They need more money ; they whack up excise on fuel. Example: Frying onions whacks up the count – 100g of fried onions contains 146 calories. 11. To mess up. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: on all the long bars it was even; the short bars we would leave in—that is, whack up the length; so that the short bars wouldn't come out as far as the long bars; but I put some of the short bars on the long bars and some of the long bars on the short bars; Example: Did he get whacked up on ninety-nines and trash your auntie's shop?