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Whack

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Definitions

nounwhacks

1
The sound of a heavy strike.
Similar
thwack
2
The strike itself.
Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks.
Similar
thwack
3
The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.

verbwhacks · whacking · whacked

1
To hit, slap or strike.
The bat whacked the baseball.
2
To assassinate, bump off.
Niko Bellic: So you want me to talk to him? / Jimmy Pegorino: I want you to whack him! And after that I want you to kill all the other rats I surround myself with...

adjwhacker · whackest

1
Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”).
That's whack, yo!

Word Origin

Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a sem...

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