whack

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English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /wæk/, /ʍæk/ or /hwæk/
• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophone: wack (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

whack (plural whacks)

1. A blow, impact or slap.
2. A share or portion.
   • 1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922,

     For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib., tea, and plenty of good bread.

3. An attempt.

Translations

A blow, impact or slap

• Dutch: klop (nl) m
• Finnish: mäjäys, täräytys, isku
• French: coup (fr) f, clac (fr) m
• German: Schlag (de) m
• Italian: colpo (it) m

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
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• Russian: удар (ru) (udar) m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Verb

whack (third-person singular simple present whacks, present participle whacking, simple past and past participle whacked)

1. To hit, slap or strike.
   • G. W. Cable

     Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.

2. (slang) To kill, bump off.
3. To share or parcel out.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:kill

Translations

To hit, slap or strike

• Dutch: slaan (nl)
• Finnish: mäjäyttää, iskeä, täräyttää
• French: frapper (fr), claquer (fr), fesser (fr)
• German: schlagen (de)
• Italian: colpire (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

• Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: drefse (no)
• Russian: ударять (ru) (udarjatʹ)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: slå (sv)

To kill, bump off

• Arabic: قتَل (ar) (qAtala) m
• Dutch: afmaken (nl)

• Finnish: tappaa (fi)
• Norwegian: kverke (no), knerte (no), ekspedere (no)

To share or parcel out

• Russian: делить (ru) (delitʹ), разделять (ru) (razdeljatʹ)

Derived terms

• out of whack
• whack the illy
• whacky