whack

/wæk/

adjective

  1. 1

    Egregious.

  2. 2

    Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange.

    “Every record they ever made was straight-up wack.”
  3. 3

    Crazy, mad, insane.

  4. 4

    Cool, bizarre, and potentially scary.

noun

  1. 1

    The sound of a heavy strike.

  2. 2

    The strike itself.

  3. 3

    The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.

  4. 4

    An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.

    “40 bucks a whack.”
  5. 5

    (originally Britain cant) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.

  6. 6

    A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.

  7. 7

    A deal, an agreement.

    “It's a whack!”
  8. 8

    The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.

verb

  1. 1

    To hit, slap or strike.

  2. 2

    To kill, bump off.

  3. 3

    To share or parcel out; often with up.

    “to whack the spoils of a robbery”
  4. 4

    To beat convincingly; to thrash.

  5. 5

    (usually in the negative) To surpass; to better.

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