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Whack   /wæk/  /hwæk/   Listen
Whack

noun
1.
The sound made by a sharp swift blow.
2.
The act of hitting vigorously.  Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whang.
verb
(past & past part. whacked; pres. part. whacking)
1.
Hit hard.  Synonyms: wallop, wham, whop.



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"Whack" Quotes from Famous Books



... are out of whack. I wanted to call in Doc Kennicott, but Bea thinks the doc doesn't like us—she thinks maybe he's sore because you come down here. But I'm ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... clinched at the Cafe Royal, where Bennett Addenbrooke insisted on playing host at an extravagant luncheon. I remember that he took his whack of champagne with the nervous freedom of a man at high pressure, and have no doubt I kept him in countenance by an equal indulgence; but Raffles, ever an exemplar in such matters, was more abstemious even than his ...
— The Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung

... to have seen a go with the parties fixed out in a pair of these things," continued Hefty. "I'd bet on the lad that got in the first whack. He wouldn't have to do nothing but shove the other one over on his back and fall on him. Why, I guess this weighs half a ton if it ...
— Van Bibber and Others • Richard Harding Davis

... said Tom, rising up and feeling his side. "Something give me an awful whack on the ribs. Don't look like a ...
— The Black Bar • George Manville Fenn

... pole wuz for, and I didn't ask; but she held it some as if she wuz liable to bring it down onto the globe and gin it a whack. ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley


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