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whack

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/wæk/ English

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adjective

  1. Egregious.
  2. Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange.“Every record they ever made was straight-up wack.”
  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.“40 bucks a whack.”

verb

  1. To hit, slap or strike.
  2. To kill, bump off.
  3. To share or parcel out; often with up.“to whack the spoils of a robbery”
  4. To beat convincingly; to thrash.

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