whack
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noun (English)
1. (US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.Examples: "C'mon. Take a whack at it."; "40 bucks a whack."; "The number arrested is not over 600 — at $805 a whack, New Jersey has made half-a-million dollars arresting gay men."USslang
2. (originally UK cant, somewhat dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.Examples: "I don’t care about much wine afterwards—I take my whack at dinner—I mean my share, you know; and when I have had as much as I want I toddle up to tea."; "“It’s damned tame, whatever it is, comin’ in here at feedin’ time an’ gettin’ its whack of fish.”"; "“[…] O'Cannon's a taxpayer. He pays his whack towards the upkeep of the State School up in town—”"dated
3. (obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.obsolete
4. (US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.Examples: ""I'll stay if you will." "Good—that's a whack.""; "It's a whack!"USobsolete
5. (dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).dated
6. (slang, computing, typography) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.Examples: "del c:\docs\readme.txt Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text."slang
verb (English)
1. (slang) To assassinate, bump off.Examples: "Niko Bellic: So you want me to talk to him? / Jimmy Pegorino: I want you to whack him! And after that I want you to kill all the other rats I surround myself with..."; "Ken Barrett, a loyalist gunman who eventually confessed to killing Mr. Finucane on orders from the paramilitary Ulster Defense Association, told a BBC investigative reporter, John Ware, that when he’d expressed reluctance about “whacking” a solicitor[…]"Synonyms: clipslang
2. (transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).Examples: "to whack the spoils of a robbery"; "When the sewer-hunters consider they have searched long enough […] the gang […] count out the money they have picked up, and proceed to dispose of the old metal, bones, rope, &c.; this done, they then, as they term it, “whack” the whole lot; that is, they divide it equally among all hands."slangtransitive
3. (sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.Examples: "The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series."
4. (UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.Examples: "Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!"UK
5. (Singapore, Singlish) To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning.Examples: "Miss Loi always tells her students not to anyhow whack, stay calm and know thy approach before attempting each question."SingaporeSinglish
6. (Singapore, Singlish) To eat something hurriedly.SingaporeSinglish
Definition source: Wiktionary