| 单词 | whack |
| 释义 | whack I. transitive verb 1. a. < whack his desk with a schoolmaster's ruler that serves him as a gavel — Janet Flanner > < whack the ball into left field > < whack the little boy for talking back > b. < ran down and captured turkey gobblers and whacked off their heads — C.T.Jackson > < the house whacked $63.8 million from the proposed … budget — New Republic > c. < the French police … have whacked some of the smartest bars in town with gigantic fines — Janet Flanner > 2. < before their homes were finished, the busy colonists had whacked up … a sort of meeting place and school — S.H.Holbrook > < whacked up half a million signatures to its petition against the bill — Mollie Panter-Downes > 3. a. b. 4. chiefly Britain < if you are whacked today, you may win tomorrow — Winnie Barber > intransitive verb < wanted to dawdle … and whack at things with a switch — Marcia Davenport > II. 1. a. < gave the rioter a whack on the head with his nightstick > also < heard the whack of the speedboat on the waves > b. < takes a good whack at false living and false gods — Virgilia Peterson > 2. a. < a European calamity fund … into which every country would pay its whack — Mollie Panter-Downes > b. chiefly Britain < we lived on our bare whack — Albert Sonnichsen > 3. Midland 4. < the tycoon is in fine whack — John Hay †1905 > 5. a. < having first whack at original-cast album privileges — J.M.Conly > : try < some horsebreaker had already taken a whack at these ponies and hadn't done a very cute job — F.B.Gipson > b. < made several style changes with one whack > < borrow fifty dollars all at one whack — G.S.Perry > • - out of whack III. variant of wack IV. < got whacked by the mob > |
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