Usually means: Strikes forcefully; colloquial for murders.
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  1. whacks: Merriam-Webster
  2. whacks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. whacks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Whacks, whacks: Wordnik
  5. whacks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. whacks: Wiktionary
  7. whacks: Dictionary.com
  8. whacks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. whacks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whacks: Legal dictionary

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  1. whacks: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whack)

noun:  The sound of a heavy strike.
noun:  The strike itself.
noun:  The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
noun:  (US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
noun:  (originally UK cant, somewhat dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
noun:  (obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
noun:  (US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
noun:  (dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).
noun:  (slang, computing, typography) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
verb:  To hit, slap or strike.
verb:  (slang) To assassinate, bump off.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To share or parcel out (often with up).
verb:  (sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
verb:  (UK, chiefly in the negative) To surpass; to better.
verb:  (Singapore, Singlish) To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning.
verb:  (Singapore, Singlish) To eat something hurriedly.
adjective:  Alternative spelling of wack (“crazy”) [(originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, corny, cringy, uncool, messed up.]
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