Meaning

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

  2. (countable, uncountable)The strike itself.

    Schlag, Hieb

    уда́рudár

  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.

  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. — deniko

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

  3. I had another whack at it.

  4. Yanni whacked his wife with a hammer.

  5. I whacked my finger with a hammer.

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

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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