Meaning

10 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The sound of a heavy strike.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The strike itself.

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  3. (countable, uncountable)The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.

  4. (countable, slang, uncountable)An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.

    C'mon. Take a whack at it.

    40 bucks a whack.

  5. (countable, dated, uncountable)A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.

  6. (countable, slang, uncountable)A harmful outcome or repercussion.

  7. (dated, uncountable)PCP, phencyclidine (also wack).

  8. (countable, slang, uncountable)The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.

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

  9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.

  10. (US, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A deal, an agreement.

    It's a whack!

More definitions
  • the sound made by a sharp swift blow
  • the act of hitting vigorously

Examples

20 sentences
  1. Tom whacked the dog with his cane.

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  2. A little old woman foiled the robbery by whacking the thief on the head with her cane.

    Старенька жіночка невисокого зросту запобігла пограбуванню, вдаривши злодія по голові своєю тростиною.

    ruМаленькая старушка провалила ограбление, огрев злодея по голове своей тростью.

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  3. I had another whack at it.

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  4. Yanni whacked his wife with a hammer.

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  5. I whacked my finger with a hammer.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a blow, impact or slap:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a blow, impact or slap:

Origin

Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken,

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 semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”).

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Forms

plural: whacks
Singularwhack
Pluralwhacks

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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