whacking

4 definitions found

whacking - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Whacking \Whack"ing\, a.
     Very large; whapping. [Colloq.]
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  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]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

whacking - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  whacking
      adv 1: extremely; "a whacking good story"
      adj 1: (British informal) enormous; "a whacking phone bill"; "a
             whacking lie"
      n 1: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated
           blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing,
           lacing, trouncing, whacking]

whacking - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "whacking":
     awful, banging, bumping, deadly, dreadful, fearful, frightful,
     horrible, howling, rousing, slapping, spanking, terrible, terrific,
     thumping, thundering, walloping, whaling, whopping