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Is whack a Scrabble word?

Yes, whack is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 17 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of whack?

Definition

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

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "whack"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "whack"?

Scrabble
17 points
W4
H4
A1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
17 points
W4
H3
A1
C4
K5

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