WHACK - 15 definitions found
whack n 1: the sound made by a sharp swift blow 2: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: knock, belt, rap, whack, whang] v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop] whack wæk See: OUT OF WHACK. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) whack I. verb Etymology: probably imitative of the sound of a blow Date: 1719 transitive verb 1. a. to strike with a smart or resounding blow <whack the ball> b. to cut with or as if with a whack ; chop 2. chiefly British to get the better of ; defeat 3. slang murder, kill intransitive verb to strike a smart or resounding blow • whacker noun II. noun Date: 1736 1. a. a smart or resounding blow; also the sound of or as if of such a blow b. a critical attack 2. portion, share 3. condition, state 4. a. an opportunity or attempt to do something <take a whack at it> b. a single action or occasion <borrowed $50 all at one whack> Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary whack (whacks, whacking, whacked) 1. If you whack someone or something, you hit them hard. (INFORMAL) You really have to whack the ball... Someone whacked him on the head. VERB: V n, V n prep • Whack is also a noun. He gave the donkey a whack across the back with his stick... N-COUNT; SOUND 2. Your whack of something is your share of it. (BRIT INFORMAL) The majority of people in this country pay their whack... We need to win a fair whack of the contracts. = share N-SING: oft poss N English Explanatory Dictionary whack wæk v. & n. colloq. --v.tr. 1 strike or beat forcefully with a sharp blow. 2 (as whacked adj.) esp. Brit. tired out; exhausted. --n. 1 a sharp or resounding blow. 2 sl. a share. øhave a whack at sl. attempt. out of whack esp. US sl. out of order; malfunctioning. øøwhacker n. whacking n. [imit., or alt. of THWACK] 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue WHACK A share of a booty obtained by fraud. A paddy whack; a stout brawney Irishman. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Whack \Whack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Whacking.] [Cf. Thwack.] To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.] Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes. --G. W. Cable. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Whack \Whack\, v. i. To strike anything with a smart blow. To whack away, to continue striking heavy blows; as, to whack away at a log. [Colloq.] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Whack \Whack\, n. A smart resounding blow. [Colloq.] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Whack \Whack\, v. t. To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a robbery; -- often with up. [Slang] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Whack \Whack\, n. A portion; share; allowance. [Slang] Out of whack, out of order. [Slang] Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) whack v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glarking things from context. As a trivial example, it is relatively easy to change all `stderr' writes to `stdout' writes in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise mysterious. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 129 Moby Thesaurus words for "whack": approach, assay, attempt, bang, bash, bat, beating, belt, bid, biff, blow, bonk, bout, box, box the ears, buffet, bump, burst, bust, catch, chance, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, crash, crump, cuff, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, dint, drub, drubbing, drumming, effort, endeavor, essay, experiment, fetch, fetch a blow, flap, fling, flop, fusillade, gambit, go, hit, hit a clip, inning, innings, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, lick, move, offer, opportunity, paste, pelt, place, plunk, poke, pop, pound, punch, rap, relief, report, round, say, shot, slam, slap, slap the face, slat, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, spell, splat, stab, stagger, step, strike, strike at, stroke, strong bid, swap, swat, swing, swipe, tap, tattoo, tentative, thump, thwack, time, time at bat, token punishment, trial, trial and error, try, turn, undertaking, wallop, wham, whap, whirl, whomp, whop, yerk |
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