Meaning of whack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The sound of a heavy strike.
2. The strike itself.
3. The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
4. An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
   US, slang
5. A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
   dated
6. A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
   obsolete
7. A deal, an agreement.
   US, obsolete
8. PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).
   dated
9. The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
   slang
10. Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”)
    alt-of, alternative, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks.”

“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.”

“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.”

“"I'll stay if you will." "Good—that's a whack."”

“It's a whack!”

“del c:\docs\readme.txt Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.”

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