whack someone

whack (one)

1. To strike one very forcefully. He whacked me on the head for speaking out of turn. Stop swinging that tree branch around. You're going to whack someone with it if you're not careful!
2. slang To murder or arrange the murder of one. Used especially in relation to organized crime. The guy is such a psycho. He'd whack you just for looking at him the wrong way! The mob whacks anyone who testifies against them in court.
See also: whack
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

whack someone

verb
See whack someone out
See also: someone, whack
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • whack
  • whack (one)
  • wack someone
  • whacked
  • whacking
  • wack someone/something up
  • whack up
  • whack someone/something up
  • whack something up
  • clock
References in periodicals archive
He wanted to turn around and whack someone for calling me every name under the sun.
You don't whack someone in the middle of the biggest gangland feud in the country and then just go and get high as a kite if you are a serious hitman.
Sandy Holland said: "Surely no amount of provocation makes it acceptable to whack someone with a large metal object."
Money from the [pounds sterling]5 'whack n' keep' souvenir pillows was donated to charity, and one of the few rules at the event was not to whack someone who was unarmed with a pillow or taking a picture.
Revolvers, if used to whack someone or something with their side surface, disassemble and unload themselves or become jammed, rendering them inoperable.
He'll perform one of his renowned swandives into the ruck, interfere at the lineout, or whack someone and some gnarled Bok prop or tight forward will belt him - if the ref doesn't card him first.
To whack someone you play with is quite outrageous."
"If you are going to whack someone, you are committing a criminal offence, it is an unlawful use of force.
It may look like ROD STEWART'S turning into an old codger, but really he's ready to whack someone with that natty umbrella in a, er, moody rock star tantrum.
Spy" cartoons in Mad magazine, with everyone sneaking around scheming to whack someone else.
The youth had originally told police he intended to use the hammer, which has sharp metal spikes on the end, to "whack someone around the head." But he later argued he made up this claim because he was afraid of being "stitched-up for car theft."
"If it's a Second or Third Division match and a guy in the stand sees a player whack someone does he tell the SFA they should get a copy of the game because somethinghappened in the 56th minute?
I had to go because I knew if that happened I'd whack someone in the face, and I can't afford to do that."
"That is quite a startling moment in dinner party conversation, because you are talking to some incredibly nice, middle-aged man, like your father, who explains that if you want to whack someone, you do it in a car through the back of a head and it's all quite clean."
And check out those crazy textual sound effects - "zwang!" and "whomp!" - which pop up briefly when you whack someone.