Whack

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whack \Whack\, v. i.
     To strike anything with a smart blow.
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     {To whack away}, to continue striking heavy blows; as, to
        whack away at a log. [Colloq.]


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whack \Whack\, n.
     1. A smart resounding blow. [Colloq.]
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     2. A portion; share; allowance. [Slang]
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     3. an attempt; as, to take a whack at it. [Colloq.]
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     {Out of whack}, out of order. [Slang]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whack \Whack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whacked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Whacking}.] [Cf. {Thwack}.]
     1. To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to;
        to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.]
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              Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow
              brakes.                               --G. W. Cable.
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     2. To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a
        robbery; -- often with up. [Slang]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whack
       n 1: the sound made by a sharp swift blow
       2: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
          [syn: {knock}, {belt}, {rap}, {whang}]
       v : hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: {wham}, {whop},
            {wallop}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "whack":
     approach, assay, attempt, bang, bash, bat, beating, belt, bid,
     biff, blow, bonk, bout, box, box the ears, buffet, bump, burst,
     bust, catch, chance, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout,
     clump, coldcock, crack, crash, crump, cuff, cut, dash, deal,
     deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, dint, drub, drubbing, drumming,
     effort, endeavor, essay, experiment, fetch, fetch a blow, flap,
     fling, flop, fusillade, gambit, go, hit, hit a clip, inning,
     innings, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out,
     let have it, lick, move, offer, opportunity, paste, pelt, place,
     plunk, poke, pop, pound, punch, rap, relief, report, round, say,
     shot, slam, slap, slap the face, slat, slog, slug, smack, smash,
     smite, snap, soak, sock, spell, splat, stab, stagger, step, strike,
     strike at, stroke, strong bid, swap, swat, swing, swipe, tap,
     tattoo, tentative, thump, thwack, time, time at bat,
     token punishment, trial, trial and error, try, turn, undertaking,
     wallop, wham, whap, whirl, whomp, whop, yerk
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  whack v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of {NeWS},
     {GOSMACS} and Java), to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how
     it works." (See {whacker}.) It is actually possible to do this in
     nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you
     are very good at {glark}ing things from context. As a trivial example,
     it is relatively easy to change all `stderr' writes to `stdout' writes
     in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise mysterious.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  whack
       
          According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a
          program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See
          {whacker}.)  It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial
          circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you
          are very good at {glark}ing things from context.  As a trivial
          example, it is relatively easy to change all "stderr" writes
          to "stdout" writes in a piece of C filter code which remains
          otherwise mysterious.
       
          [{Jargon File}]