Whacking

4 definitions found

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

  Whacking \Whack"ing\, a.
     Very large; whapping. [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]

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.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow
              brakes.                               --G. W. Cable.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a
        robbery; -- often with up. [Slang]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whacking
       adj : (British informal) enormous; "a whacking phone bill"; "a
             whacking lie"
       n : the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated
           blows [syn: {beating}, {thrashing}, {licking}, {drubbing},
            {lacing}, {trouncing}]
       adv : extremely; "a whacking good story"

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

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "whacking":
     awful, banging, bumping, deadly, dreadful, fearful, frightful,
     horrible, howling, rousing, slapping, spanking, terrible, terrific,
     thumping, thundering, walloping, whaling, whopping