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wack1 /wak /noun British informalUsed as a familiar term of address, chiefly in Liverpool: ‘Gorra light ’ave yer, wack?'... Origin 1960s: of unknown origin. Rhymes aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, flak, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, vac, whack, wrack, yak, Zack wack2 /wak /informal, chiefly US adjectiveBad; inferior: a wack radio station...- Besides, I was tired with these wack rappers claiming to be this and that.
- He was planning to do his own reality show (not as wack as it sounds).
- There was an attempted comeback, but it was wack.
noun1A crazy or eccentric person: the kids were learning to live with the idea that Dad was a wack...- The whole thing is a mess of accusations of conspiracies and attempts to paint Curtis as a wild-eyed wack.
- Malone was a complete wack and seemed to drive Rin over the edge!
- Hardly any of those wacks running for office are worth voting for.
2 [mass noun] Worthless or stupid ideas or talk; rubbish: this track is a load of wack...- Not because he thinks that 50 Cent's flow is mad wack, but because - in his opinion - 50 Cent glorifies gun crime.
- Anyway, says Ghostface Killah about the Wu's new mission: ‘The game is mad wack…’
- But thanks to the proliferation of hip-hop media, which spreads the word separating the wicked from the wack, self-criticism is slowly becoming a fixture as well.
Origin 1930s: probably a back-formation from wacky. |