whack
/wæk/
Dictionary
adjective
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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