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Whack   /wæk/  /hwæk/   Listen
noun
Whack  n.  
1.
A smart resounding blow. (Colloq.)
2.
A portion; share; allowance. (Slang)
3.
An attempt; as, to take a whack at it. (Colloq.)
Out of whack, out of order. (Slang)


verb
Whack  v. t.  (past & past part. whacked; pres. part. whacking)  
1.
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."
2.
To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a robbery; often with up. (Slang)


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.)





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"Whack" Quotes from Famous Books



... suddenly in the interval and she slapped her leg with a resounding whack. "There are 'skeeters roun' this place. One of 'em bit me—an old he ...
— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple
... Nathaniel Letton would erect a couple of new buildings for that university of his. Leon Guggenhammer would buy new engines for that yacht, or a whole fleet of yachts. But what the devil Dowsett would do with his whack, was beyond him—most likely ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London
... that case, old man," he cried, striking me a great whack between the shoulder-blades, "charge any fee you like; I'll pay it! And I'll make such a country-place out of this as was never seen west of New York state, and call it Mohair, after my old trotter. I'll put a palace on that clearing, with the stables just ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... dole him out a couple of thousand ten-dollar notes of the First National Bank of the Bosphorus, or else gave him a soft job as Keeper of the Bird Seed for the Bulbuls in the Imperial Gardens. If the story was a cracker-jack, he had Mesrour, the executioner, whack off his head. The report that Haroun Al Raschid is yet alive and is editing the magazine that your grandmother used to subscribe for ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... limit made to bar The unrestricted whack (A hundred yards I think should be The length on which we might agree), And if you pushed the ball too far You'd ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920 • Various


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