whack
Betekenis (Engels)
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- The sound of a heavy strike.
- The strike itself.
- The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
- (slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
- A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
- (obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
- (obsolete) A deal, an agreement.
- PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).
- (slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
Concepten
Synoniemen
hit hard
belabour
strike hard
heavy thrashing
beat hard
hard-hit
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/wæk/
Etymologie (Engels)
Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken < Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack).
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