Whack
noun
A heavy or hard hit.
She gave the ball a hard whack with her baseball bat.
Often appears as...
- give a whack
- take a whack
verb
To hit something or someone with a lot of force.
He whacked the ball right out of the park.
Often appears as...
- whack the ball
- whack someone
noun
An attempt or try.
Let me have a whack at fixing the computer.
Often appears as...
- take a whack
- have a whack
adverb
To a great extent.
She is whack happy about her promotion.
Often appears as...
- whack happy
- whack excited
noun
A crazy or eccentric person.
He's a bit of a whack, but he's harmless.
Often appears as...
- be a whack
- seem a whack
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
verb
To murder someone, especially by organized crime.
The mob had him whacked for talking to the police.
Often appears as...
- have someone whacked
- order to whack
Usage tips
Slang, Disapproving
Idiomatic
noun
A heavy or hard hit.
She gave the ball a hard whack with her baseball bat.
Often appears as...
- give a whack
- take a whack
verb
To hit something or someone with a lot of force.
He whacked the ball right out of the park.
Often appears as...
- whack the ball
- whack someone
noun
An attempt or try.
Let me have a whack at fixing the computer.
Often appears as...
- take a whack
- have a whack
adverb
To a great extent.
She is whack happy about her promotion.
Often appears as...
- whack happy
- whack excited
noun
A crazy or eccentric person.
He's a bit of a whack, but he's harmless.
Often appears as...
- be a whack
- seem a whack
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
verb
To murder someone, especially by organized crime.
The mob had him whacked for talking to the police.
Often appears as...
- have someone whacked
- order to whack
Usage tips
Slang, Disapproving
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 6
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Force
Used to describe a powerful physical action, often involving hands or tools.
He took a whack at the nail with the hammer.
Pro Tip 2/2Sudden Impact
Indicates a rapid and sometimes unexpected hit or contact.
The pie hit the floor with a loud whack.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Force
Used to describe a powerful physical action, often involving hands or tools.
He took a whack at the nail with the hammer.
Pro Tip 2/2Sudden Impact
Indicates a rapid and sometimes unexpected hit or contact.
The pie hit the floor with a loud whack.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Force
Used to describe a powerful physical action, often involving hands or tools.
He took a whack at the nail with the hammer.
Pro Tip 2/2Sudden Impact
Indicates a rapid and sometimes unexpected hit or contact.
The pie hit the floor with a loud whack.
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The Fascinating Lives of...
they invest a great deal of time with them. Caring for them while they still have to go about their daily duties. So you'll see a mother holding an infant like this with one hand, while she's grabbing grass with the other one. It's always amusing when she kind of crosses wires a little bit and is whacking her infant in the head while she's putting grass into her mouth.
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Saving the Creepy...
tried painting a white room at a zoo and the chimp just sat by the camera opening uh you know so i couldn't really put my camera in there because you just whack so i still don't have a good picture of an adult chimp that's kind of my white whale i guess there's something so delightful about the one that's the most
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Tracking grizzly bears...
and stressing them out by avoiding these areas during important feeding periods. Finally, the maps can be used to predict the effects of climate change, where shifting annual temperatures will alter the rate of plant growth, throwing the bears' precise foraging schedule out of whack. This provides less food
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What is economic value,...
but just being siphoned out in terms of buying back your own shares, which boosts stock options, which is, in fact, the way that many executives are getting paid. And, you know, some share buybacks is absolutely fine, but this system is completely out of whack. These numbers that I'm showing you here
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Amory Lovins: We must...
well, then it might not be safe if you got whacked by a heavy car, and it would cost a lot more to make, because the only way we know how to make cars much lighter was to use expensive light metals like aluminum and magnesium. But these objections are now vanishing through advances in materials.
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How to seek truth in the...
and to really whack us -- and their own journalists -- with this bludgeon of fake news. To what extent is what happened, though, in part, just an unintended consequence, that the traditional media that you worked in had this curation-mediation role, where certain norms were observed,
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The dark side of...
out of whack and one of those behaviors is empathy empathy and compassion I mean think about it you we watch these things unfold on television and and we hurt for the people who lose their town or they lose their to their city or their own property and we want to do something
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Allan Adams: The...
So here's what they found on Imagine you take a bell, and you whack the bell with a hammer. What happens? It rings. But if you wait, that ringing fades and fades and fades until you don't notice it anymore. Now, that early universe was incredibly dense,
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Attacked by a Lion? PIPE...
The sheer size of this forearm. It's thick right from the forearm all the way down to the paw. So even without claws, you've got this huge paw pad that can give you a whack. Add to that, four razor-sharp claws, huge fangs,
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Coal Mine Floods PIPE...
it's just coming around and threw it over it like it's not there papa knack has a split-second whacked he jumps into a chamber to the side which saves his life raging water is just inches away you
Video examples
The Fascinating Lives of...
they invest a great deal of time with them. Caring for them while they still have to go about their daily duties. So you'll see a mother holding an infant like this with one hand, while she's grabbing grass with the other one. It's always amusing when she kind of crosses wires a little bit and is whacking her infant in the head while she's putting grass into her mouth.
Video examples
Saving the Creepy...
tried painting a white room at a zoo and the chimp just sat by the camera opening uh you know so i couldn't really put my camera in there because you just whack so i still don't have a good picture of an adult chimp that's kind of my white whale i guess there's something so delightful about the one that's the most
Video examples
Tracking grizzly bears...
and stressing them out by avoiding these areas during important feeding periods. Finally, the maps can be used to predict the effects of climate change, where shifting annual temperatures will alter the rate of plant growth, throwing the bears' precise foraging schedule out of whack. This provides less food
Video examples
What is economic value,...
but just being siphoned out in terms of buying back your own shares, which boosts stock options, which is, in fact, the way that many executives are getting paid. And, you know, some share buybacks is absolutely fine, but this system is completely out of whack. These numbers that I'm showing you here
Video examples
Amory Lovins: We must...
well, then it might not be safe if you got whacked by a heavy car, and it would cost a lot more to make, because the only way we know how to make cars much lighter was to use expensive light metals like aluminum and magnesium. But these objections are now vanishing through advances in materials.
Video examples
How to seek truth in the...
and to really whack us -- and their own journalists -- with this bludgeon of fake news. To what extent is what happened, though, in part, just an unintended consequence, that the traditional media that you worked in had this curation-mediation role, where certain norms were observed,
Video examples
The dark side of...
out of whack and one of those behaviors is empathy empathy and compassion I mean think about it you we watch these things unfold on television and and we hurt for the people who lose their town or they lose their to their city or their own property and we want to do something
Video examples
Allan Adams: The...
So here's what they found on Imagine you take a bell, and you whack the bell with a hammer. What happens? It rings. But if you wait, that ringing fades and fades and fades until you don't notice it anymore. Now, that early universe was incredibly dense,
Video examples
Attacked by a Lion? PIPE...
The sheer size of this forearm. It's thick right from the forearm all the way down to the paw. So even without claws, you've got this huge paw pad that can give you a whack. Add to that, four razor-sharp claws, huge fangs,
Video examples
Coal Mine Floods PIPE...
it's just coming around and threw it over it like it's not there papa knack has a split-second whacked he jumps into a chamber to the side which saves his life raging water is just inches away you
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Morris Gleitzman
English Author
I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.
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Marie Osmond
American Musician
What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.
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Kirk Cousins
American Athlete
Life is about balance. You don't want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there's a balance to find. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.
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Winston Churchill
British Statesman
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Guillermo del Toro
Mexican Director
I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters.
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Charles R. Swindoll
American Clergyman
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
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Kanye West
American Rapper
You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
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Sam Graves
American Politician
Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
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Gok Wan
British Author
The U.K. perception of beauty is totally out of whack.
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Morris Gleitzman
English Author
I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.
Quote examples
Marie Osmond
American Musician
What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.
Quote examples
Kirk Cousins
American Athlete
Life is about balance. You don't want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there's a balance to find. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other.
Quote examples
Winston Churchill
British Statesman
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Quote examples
Guillermo del Toro
Mexican Director
I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters.
Quote examples
Charles R. Swindoll
American Clergyman
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
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Kanye West
American Rapper
You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
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Sam Graves
American Politician
Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
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Gok Wan
British Author
The U.K. perception of beauty is totally out of whack.
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