English dictionary

whack

adjective

Pronunciation

/wæk/

Audio pronunciation

Parts of speech

adjective noun verb

Definitions

adjective

  1. Egregious.
  2. Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange.
  3. Crazy, mad, insane.
  4. Cool, bizarre, and potentially scary.

noun

  1. The sound of a heavy strike.
  2. The strike itself.
  3. The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
  4. An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
  5. (originally Britain cant) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
  6. A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
  7. A deal, an agreement.
  8. The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.

verb

  1. To hit, slap or strike.
  2. To kill, bump off.
  3. To share or parcel out; often with up.
  4. To beat convincingly; to thrash.
  5. (usually in the negative) To surpass; to better.

Example sentences

Every record they ever made was straight-up wack.
40 bucks a whack.
It's a whack!
to whack the spoils of a robbery
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