whackverb
uk/wæk/us/wæk/[ T ] to hit someone or something noisily:
[ T + adv/prep ] UK informal to quickly put something somewhere:
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
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whacknoun
uk/wæk/us/wæk/whack noun (HIT)
[ C ] the action of hitting someone or something noisily:
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
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whack noun (SHARE)
[ S or U ] UK informal a share or part:
US informal to try to do something:
the highest possible price or payment:
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Sharing
- allocate
- allot
- allotment
- apportion
- cake
- distribution
- divide/split (sth) down the middle idiom
- divvy
- divvy sth up
- double
- double up
- Dutch
- half
- joint
- middle
- ration sth out
- redistribute
- share and share alike idiom
- share-out
- shareable
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whack noun (NOT RIGHT)
not operating correctly or looking right:
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Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- outage
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- wrong
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