Usually means: Hit or strike with force.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. whack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whack: Merriam-Webster
  3. whack, whack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whack: The Word Spy
  5. whack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  6. whack: Collins English Dictionary
  7. whack: Vocabulary.com
  8. Whack, whack: Wordnik
  9. whack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  10. whack: Wiktionary
  11. whack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. whack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. whack: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. whack: Dictionary.com
  15. whack (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. whack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Whack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Whack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. whack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. whack: Rhymezone
  21. Whack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. whack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. whack: FreeDictionary.org
  24. whack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. whack: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whack: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. whack: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. whack: Netlingo
  3. whack: CCI Computer
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. whack: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. whack: Idioms

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Whack (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. whack: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. whack: Colloquial Speech of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
  5. Whack: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  6. WHACK: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See whacked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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