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Whack

adjective
/wæk/
Word Frequency: 0.4

Definitions

1.adjectiveEgregious.
2.adjectiveBad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange.
"Every record they ever made was straight-up wack."
3.adjectiveCrazy, mad, insane.
4.adjectiveCool, bizarre, and potentially scary.
5.nounThe sound of a heavy strike.
6.nounThe strike itself.
7.nounThe stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
8.nounAn attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
"40 bucks a whack."
9.noun(originally Britain cant) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
10.nounA whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
11.nounA deal, an agreement.
"It's a whack!"
12.nounThe backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
13.verbTo hit, slap or strike.
14.verbTo kill, bump off.
15.verbTo share or parcel out; often with up.
"to whack the spoils of a robbery"
16.verbTo beat convincingly; to thrash.
17.verb(usually in the negative) To surpass; to better.

Synonyms

whamwhangwalloprapknockwhopbeltslaplambanginghitblow

Rhymes With

crackslackblacktrackhackrackbacksetback
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