whack

noun · verb · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

whacks

1.
(countable, uncountable)The sound of a heavy strike.
Đồng nghĩa: thwack
2.
(countable, uncountable)The strike itself.
Đồng nghĩa: thwack
3.
(countable, uncountable)The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
4.
(US, countable, slang, uncountable)An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
C'mon. Take a whack at it.
40 bucks a whack.
5.
(countable, dated, uncountable)(originally UK cant, somewhat dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
6.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
7.
(US, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A deal, an agreement.
It's a whack!
8.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A harmful outcome or repercussion.
9.
(dated, uncountable)(uncountable, dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (also wack).
10.
(countable, slang, uncountable)(slang, computing, typography) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
del c:\docs\readme.txt Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

whacks

V_ing/Gerund

whacking

V_ed/pp

whacked

1.
(transitive)To hit, slap or strike.
The bat whacked the baseball.
G. W. Cable Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
2.
(slang, transitive)To assassinate, bump off.
Đồng nghĩa: clip
3.
(slang, transitive)To share or parcel out (often with up).
to whack the spoils of a robbery
4.
(sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
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.
5.
(UK)(UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
6.
(Singapore, Singlish)To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning.
7.
(Singapore, Singlish)To eat something hurriedly.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

whacker

Superlative

whackest

1.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”).
That's whack, yo!

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

thwack clip

Cùng gốc / liên quan

full whackgo whackshave a whack atcop one's whacksack-whackwhackjobwhack shackout of whacktake a whack attop whackwackywhack upwhack-upwhack one outwhack out

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Nguồn gốc từ

. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare thakken, from þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a hentam (to strike; to do something carelessly).