whack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: whacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a heavy strike.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The strike itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks.
gloss: The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: C'mon. Take a whack at it.
40 bucks a whack.
The number arrested is not over 600 — at $805 a whack, New Jersey has made half-a-million dollars arresting gay men.
gloss: A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: 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.”
“[…] O'Cannon's a taxpayer. He pays his whack towards the upkeep of the State School up in town—”
"Look here, suppose we come along with you? We can do our whack, and when we do find them it will make things easier for all of us."
For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread.
There were problems over the installation of the engine and the handling. The team had paid top whack for the two Coopers, but the company gave them no help at all.
gloss: A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A deal, an agreement.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: "I'll stay if you will."
"Good—that's a whack."
It's a whack!
gloss: A harmful outcome or repercussion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: PCP, phencyclidine (also wack).
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
gloss: The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: del c:\docs\readme.txt
Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.
gloss: To hit, slap or strike.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
G. W. Cable
Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
gloss: To assassinate, bump off.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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[…]
gloss: To share or parcel out (often with up).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To beat convincingly; to thrash.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To surpass; to better.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!
gloss: To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
Singlish
examples: Miss Loi always tells her students not to anyhow whack, stay calm and know thy approach before attempting each question.
gloss: To eat something hurriedly.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
Singlish
Derived words: cop one's whack
full whack
go whacks
have a whack at
out of whack
sack-whack
take a whack at
top whack
wacky
whackjob
whack out
whack shack
whack up
whack-up
whack one out
anyhow whack
whack-a-mole
whack off
whack the illy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: силен удар
roman: silen udar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 重擊 /重击
roman: zhòngjī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 猛擊 /猛击
roman: měngjī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 打
roman: dǎ
lang: Dutch
word: klop
lang: Finnish
word: mäjäys
lang: Finnish
word: täräytys
lang: Finnish
word: isku
lang: Finnish
word: läimäytys
lang: French
word: coup
lang: French
word: clac
lang: Galician
word: pancada
lang: Galician
word: mocada
lang: Galician
word: tombo
lang: Galician
word: zoupada
lang: Galician
word: zuco
lang: Galician
word: trambullón
lang: Galician
word: tordeón
lang: German
word: Schlag
lang: German
word: Hieb
lang: Italian
word: colpo
lang: Russian
word: уда́р
roman: udár
lang: Spanish
word: porrazo
lang: Spanish
word: trompazo
lang: Spanish
word: cebollazo