Usually means: Striking forcefully with a loud sound.
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  1. thwacking: Merriam-Webster
  2. thwacking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. thwacking: Vocabulary.com
  4. thwacking: Wordnik
  5. thwacking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. thwacking: Wiktionary
  7. thwacking: Dictionary.com
  8. Thwacking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Thwacking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. thwacking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. thwacking: FreeDictionary.org
  12. thwacking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.

Similar:
smack, whacking, whopping, thrashing, thumping, walloping, warming, thwacker, lambasting, whipping, more...

Opposite:
caressing, stroking, petting

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Similar:
smack, whacking, whopping, thrashing, thumping, walloping, warming, thwacker, lambasting, whipping, more...

Opposite:
caressing, stroking, petting



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