whack

7 definitions found

whack - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Whack \Whack\, v. i.
     To strike anything with a smart blow.
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     To whack away, to continue striking heavy blows; as, to
        whack away at a log. [Colloq.]
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  Whack \Whack\, n.
     1. A smart resounding blow. [Colloq.]
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     2. A portion; share; allowance. [Slang]
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     3. an attempt; as, to take a whack at it. [Colloq.]
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     Out of whack, out of order. [Slang]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  Whack \Whack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whacked; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Whacking.] [Cf. Thwack.]
     1. To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to;
        to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.]
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              Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow
              brakes.                               --G. W. Cable.
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     2. To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a
        robbery; -- often with up. [Slang]
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whack - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  whack
      n 1: the sound made by a sharp swift blow
      2: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
         [syn: knock, belt, rap, whack, whang]
      v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack,
           wham, whop, wallop]

whack - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  whack
  
     According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a
     program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See
     whacker.)  It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial
     circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you
     are very good at glarking things from context.  As a trivial
     example, it is relatively easy to change all "stderr" writes
     to "stdout" writes in a piece of C filter code which remains
     otherwise mysterious.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

whack - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  whack
   v.
  
     According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS
     and Java), to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it
     works." (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in
     nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and
     you are very good at glarking things from context. As a trivial
     example, it is relatively easy to change all stderr writes to stdout
     writes in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise
  mysterious.
  

whack - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "whack":
     approach, assay, attempt, bang, bash, bat, beating, belt, bid,
     biff, blow, bonk, bout, box, box the ears, buffet, bump, burst,
     bust, catch, chance, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout,
     clump, coldcock, crack, crash, crump, cuff, cut, dash, deal,
     deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, dint, drub, drubbing, drumming,
     effort, endeavor, essay, experiment, fetch, fetch a blow, flap,
     fling, flop, fusillade, gambit, go, hit, hit a clip, inning,
     innings, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out,
     let have it, lick, move, offer, opportunity, paste, pelt, place,
     plunk, poke, pop, pound, punch, rap, relief, report, round, say,
     shot, slam, slap, slap the face, slat, slog, slug, smack, smash,
     smite, snap, soak, sock, spell, splat, stab, stagger, step, strike,
     strike at, stroke, strong bid, swap, swat, swing, swipe, tap,
     tattoo, tentative, thump, thwack, time, time at bat,
     token punishment, trial, trial and error, try, turn, undertaking,
     wallop, wham, whap, whirl, whomp, whop, yerk