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whack
noun- a heavy, resounding blow; a blow with a stick, often as corporal punishment UK, 1737
- Chow Yun Fat plays a gambling king who gets a whack on the head and turns into an idiot gibbering for chocolate[.] — Stefan Hammond, Sex and Zen & A Bullet in the Head, p. 160, 1996
- [He] brought an imaginary sword down on my leg, whack, whack, whack. I’d been warned by his eyes, and managed not to flinch. — Gillian Bradshaw, Island of Ghosts, p. 75, 1998
- a share, a portion, a part, a measure AUSTRALIA, 1889
- But we made him spend a fair whack of it before we went to bed. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 14, 1979
- the main title theme turned up to full whack — Christopher Frayling, Sergio Leone, p. 160, 2000
- September 11, and the fear, uncertainty, and distraction that followed, have taken a mighty whack out of U.S. financial vigor — Karl Zinsmeister, Boots on the Ground, p. 8, 2003
- heroin UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 285, 2003
- crack cocaine UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 282, 2003
- a poorly executed piece of graffiti art US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 143, 1997
▶ have a whack at; take a whack at
to attempt something; to attack someone US, 1904- This regime-change stuff can be tricky. Apparently Georgie Porgie [US President George W. Bush] took a whack at it a couple of months ago in Venezuela [.] — New York Observer, 24 July 2002
▶ out of whack
not in proper shape or order US, 1885- [H]is stomach is out of whack. — As Good As It Gets, 1997
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