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whack

/wæk/

adjective

Meaning

  • Egregious.

  • Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange.

    "Every record they ever made was straight-up wack."

  • Crazy, mad, insane.

  • Cool, bizarre, and potentially scary.

noun

Meaning

  • The sound of a heavy strike.

  • The strike itself.

  • The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.

  • An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.

    "40 bucks a whack."

  • (originally Britain cant) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.

  • A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.

  • A deal, an agreement.

    "It's a whack!"

  • The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.

verb

Meaning

  • To hit, slap or strike.

  • To kill, bump off.

  • To share or parcel out; often with up.

    "to whack the spoils of a robbery"

  • To beat convincingly; to thrash.

  • (usually in the negative) To surpass; to better.