Definitions for whack
ʰwæk, wækwhack

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. whacknoun

   the sound made by a sharp swift blow

2. knock, belt, rap, whack, whangverb

   the act of hitting vigorously

   "he gave the table a whack"

3. whack, wham, whop, wallopverb

   hit hard

   "The teacher whacked the boy"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. whacknoun

   A blow, impact or slap.

2. whacknoun

   A share or portion.

3. whacknoun

   An attempt.

4. whackverb

   To hit, slap or strike.

5. whackverb

   To kill, bump off.

6. whackverb

   To share or parcel out.

7. Etymology: Onomatopoeic.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Whackverb

   to strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks

2. Whackverb

   to strike anything with a smart blow

3. Whacknoun

   a smart resounding blow

4. Etymology: [Cf. Thwack.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Whack

   hwak, v.t. to thwack: (slang) to parcel out, share.—v.i. to keep on striking: (slang) to settle accounts.—n. a blow: a stroke, share.—n. Whack′er (slang), something big.—adj. Whack′ing, very large, astounding. [Thwack.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. whack

   According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), to “...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works.” (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glarking things from context. As a trivial example, it is relatively easy to change all stderr writes to stdout writes in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise mysterious.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WHACK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Whack is ranked #44730 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Whack surname appeared 480 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Whack.
   
   92.2% or 443 total occurrences were Black.
   3.3% or 16 total occurrences were White.
   2.9% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Sound

Anagrams for whack »

1. chawk

How to pronounce whack?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say whack in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of whack in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of whack in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of whack in a Sentence

1. Trillium Asset Management:

   The sheer volume, magnitude, and frequency of Facebook's controversies strongly suggests that the company's whack-a-mole approach is insufficient - Facebook needs to institutionalize stronger risk oversight mechanisms.

2. Ben Cohen:

   The giant chip on the top represents all the wealth that's gone to the top 1% of the population over the last 10 years. And the way you eat it is, you whack it with your spoon and then you mix it around.

3. Applied Intuition:

   It's a bit like a whack-a-mole. You solve one problem, another might emerge.

4. Tim Squirrell:

   The consequence of that is that you can never complete the game of whack-a-mole, there's always going to be somewhere, someone circulating a Google Drive link or a Samsung cloud link or something else that allows people to access this... Once it's out in the ether, it's impossible to take everything down.

5. Josh Bailey:

   It just happened so quick, i wasnt sure. It didnt lay very flat for me. I was just trying to whack it and hope it went in. ... A crucial game. Theres still a long way to go, but a good win for us.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=whack
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Whack
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whack
4. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=whack
5. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Whack
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html