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Whacker   /wˈækər/  /hwˈækər/   Listen
noun
Whacker  n.  
1.
One who whacks. (Colloq.)
2.
Anything very large; specif., a great lie; a whopper. (Colloq.)





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"Whacker" Quotes from Famous Books



... frontier, and accustomed to its dangers by men who defied the very devil to do them harm. But even in our best clothes, saved for the display at the end of the trail, we were uncouth compared to this young gentleman, and our tanned faces and hard brown hands bespoke the rough bull-whacker of the plains. ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter
... 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 {glark}ing things from context. As a trivial example, it is relatively easy to change all 'stderr' writes to 'stdout' writes in a piece ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... all the generals down to the last Southern bush-whacker, incarnate the violent and hideous passion of slavery, now all-powerful throughout the South. Here, Lincoln, Seward, McClellan, Blair, Halleck, etc., incarnate the negation of the purest and noblest ...
— Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 • Adam Gurowski
... unless I'm a poor weather prophet," added Phil, taking a look aloft as he spoke, "we're just about due for a whacker of a storm. No leaving my camera out-of-doors this night, I ...
— Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys - The Birch Bark Lodge • Silas K. Boone
... Hunston, taking breath, and thinking up a good plausible "whacker"; "so I'll tell ...
— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng


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