Definitions for Whack
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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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. whack

   1) Verb: To strike forcibly with a blow or hit sharply, typically with a tool or weapon. 2) Noun: A powerful or serious blow or hit. 3) Slang: Referring to something as being in a poor or distorted condition, often used to describe awareness or mental stability ("out of whack"). 4) Slang: In some regions, it is used to refer to a murder or assassination, particularly within organized crime.

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

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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Anagrams for Whack »

1. chawk

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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. Donald McGurk:

   I don't think you could ever presume it's behind you, but now we're in a position to understand what's happened, it's like playing Whack-A-Mole. They just pop up somewhere else.

2. Donald Trump:

   We can't have a guy who stands in the middle of the Senate floor and every other senator thinks he's a whack job. you have to make deals. You have to get along. That's the purpose of what our founders created.

3. Justin Sherman:

   The Trump administration has taken almost like a whack-a-mole approach to dealing with these issues, because it seems that as soon as a Chinese company is in the news, all of a sudden that becomes the new target, it seems very unlikely that there is thinking going on about the longer term strategy, and much more likely that the focus instead is on this politically motivated attack on an application because it's a Chinese-owned app, even if there are real security questions.

4. Jim Manley:

   When there was a Republican administration, as a Democrat, at the risk of stating the obvious, I'm not so sure we spent much time working on the details more than how we were creating the sound bites to push (Republicans) back and take a whack at them.

5. Howard Seaver:

   I think [Sanders] saw and we all saw the downside of the Soviet system, yes, they may have had low-cost apartments, but things were very out of whack — there were food shortages, no political freedom.

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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. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Whack
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Whack
6. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Whack
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Whack