

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

whack something

up Sl. to chop something up. In about an hour, he had whacked the tree up into small logs. Have you whacked up the chicken for frying yet?




and wack
1. tv. to strike someone or something. Larry reached down and wacked the dog across the snout.
2. n. a blow or hit (at someone or something). She landed a nasty wack on his thigh.
3. n. a drink of liquor. Take a whack of this stuff.
4. Go to w(h)acked.
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Still, even for someone overflowing with ideas, following up a debut as iconic as Whack World can't be easy.
They "work" when one whacks them against a table, chair, the floor, one's thigh and so on.
When the electrical part of the heart goes out of whack and causes the ventricles to quiver this condition is known as:
More than just a coming-of-age story, Rita Coburn Whack's Meant to Be also explores Christianity, ancestral spirits and divine guidance, and how they will lead one toward a fulfilling life.
The site's "Whack of the Week" features corporate and government gobblegook as evidenced in their press releases.
Women hover on pointe, whack their legs from arabesque to six o'clock high in front, pitch into large, swooping leg circles, then fly into a frenzy of angular gestural semaphore.
I may have to whack it to crack it -- 10 times or more.
Oh, well, Happy Birthday, anyway." He gave Fred his birthday whacks. One whack for each year he was old, plus one to "grow on."
According to author Stewart Holbrook, Douglas-fir logging began with one Clement Adams Bradbury, a native of Saco, Maine, who on January 15, 1847, spat on his hands, grabbed his double-bitted ax, and took his first whack at the biggest tree he had ever seen, a fir eight feet in diameter near Astoria, Oregon.
'Whack us (new government) on our failure to do our work.
But you could never justify paying the Stones their whack, then paying even more again to line the pockets of the parasitic touts who are blighting live music in the UK.
I picked up a baseball bat that we have and chased him out, I was going to give him a good whack. I also thought about getting a photograph of him but he ran off."
Mrs Arkwright added: "This guy literally smirked, as if, excuse my French, basically 'f*** you' and then whack.