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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



... the purpose of eating it where they feel most at home. This one had gathered a half dozen big fresh-water clams onto his dining table, and sat down in the midst to enjoy the feast. He would take a clam in his fore paws, whack it a few times on the rock till the shell cracked, then open it with his teeth and devour the morsel inside. He ate leisurely, tasting each clam critically before swallowing, and sitting up often to wash his whiskers or to look out over the lake. A hermit thrush ...
— Wilderness Ways • William J Long
... weather and got through the crevassed area before camping at 7 p.m. Joyce was suffering from snow-blindness. They were now homeward bound, with 365 miles to go. They covered 16 miles on the 28th, with Joyce absolutely blind and hanging to the harness for guidance, "but still pulling his whack." They reached Spencer-Smith's camp the next afternoon and found him in his sleeping-bag, quite unable to walk. Joyce's diary of this date contains a rather gloomy reference to the outlook, since he guessed ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... these falls. At last the Kookooburra flew up with its victim for the last time, and, holding it on the branch with its foot, beat the serpent's head with its great strong beak. Dot could hear the blows fall,—whack, whack, whack,—as the beak smote the Snake's head; first on one side, then on the other, until it lay limp and dead across ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley
... be able to catch them, hey?" Connie said. "Anyway, I hope so, because one of them hit this fellow a good whack ...
— Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... Tony; "and don't whack me like that again, or I'll refuse to insert your 'Diary of the Sixth ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed


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