Usually means: Striking sound, hit with impact.
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  1. thwack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thwack: Merriam-Webster
  3. thwack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thwack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thwack: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thwack: Vocabulary.com
  7. Thwack, thwack: Wordnik
  8. thwack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. thwack: Wiktionary
  10. thwack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. thwack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. thwack: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. thwack: Dictionary.com
  14. thwack: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Thwack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. thwack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. thwack: Rhymezone
  18. Thwack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. thwack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. thwack: FreeDictionary.org
  21. thwack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. thwack: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)

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  1. thwack: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
verb:  (also figuratively) To drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting; to knock.
verb:  To pack (people or things) closely together; to cram.
verb:  (figuratively) To decisively defeat (someone) in a contest; to beat, to thrash.
verb:  (obsolete) To crowd or pack (a place or thing) with people, objects, etc.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To fall down hard with a thump.
verb:  (obsolete) To be crammed or filled full.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) Of people: to crowd or pack a place.
noun:  An act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; a whack; also, a powerful stroke involved in such hitting; a blow, a strike.
noun:  A dull or heavy slapping sound.

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