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Definition of whacker in English: whacker(also wacker) noun ˈwakəˈ(h)wækər 1A person or thing that strikes something forcefully. Example sentencesExamples - It's more fun to ski from your bumper than hike a rocky trail in the dark, wondering when you'll finally get those branch whackers off your back and on to your feet.
- That at least is the word from the ‘Nuevo Dia Newspaper’ which as all good Pinata whackers know means New Day.
- Four inches of surface and a finger-grooved linen Micarta grip make this one upscale whacker.
2Australian informal A person who is stupid or annoying (used as a general term of abuse) don't humour this guy, he's a whacker Example sentencesExamples - It would ease his mind if all those whackers were dead.
- What are they doing now, the whackers?
- Who else belongs to this mysterious group of celebrity whackers?
- He was ordered to withdraw a description of an opponent as a "whacker".
- I can't imagine how they dared break the rules, with all those regulatory whackers waiting to pounce.
Origin Early 19th century (in sense 'a heavy blow'): from whack + -er1. Sense 2 is a back formation from wacky. Rhymes alpaca, attacker, backer, clacker, claqueur, Dhaka, hacker, Hakka, lacquer, maraca, paca, packer, sifaka, slacker, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, yakka Definition of whacker in US English: whacker(also wacker) nounˈ(h)wakərˈ(h)wækər 1A person or thing that strikes something forcefully. Example sentencesExamples - Four inches of surface and a finger-grooved linen Micarta grip make this one upscale whacker.
- It's more fun to ski from your bumper than hike a rocky trail in the dark, wondering when you'll finally get those branch whackers off your back and on to your feet.
- That at least is the word from the ‘Nuevo Dia Newspaper’ which as all good Pinata whackers know means New Day.
2Australian informal A person who is stupid or annoying (used as a general term of abuse) don't humour this guy, he's a whacker Example sentencesExamples - It would ease his mind if all those whackers were dead.
- I can't imagine how they dared break the rules, with all those regulatory whackers waiting to pounce.
- Who else belongs to this mysterious group of celebrity whackers?
- He was ordered to withdraw a description of an opponent as a "whacker".
- What are they doing now, the whackers?
Origin Early 19th century (in sense ‘a heavy blow’): from whack + -er. Sense 2 is a back formation from wacky. |