whack n.5
1. (US) a mad or eccentric person; occas. of a place; also as adj.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Strip Tease 32: The other girls tell her to lay off this guy. He’s a wack. | |
| Never Come Morning (1988) 117: The whack knew he was a lefthander after all. | |
| ‘Dead Don’t Dream’ in Hollywood Detective July 🌐 He was just a witty wack with a whisky weakness. | |
| letter 23 Dec. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 147: In short, he’s a wack, extremely good company. | |
| Mad mag. Jan.–Feb. 14: This Billy whatzisname, this Poobah whack out in Kansas. | |
 | Love Me Do 13: ‘Your ever-hopeful Beatle-loving whack’. | |
| How to Talk Dirty 22: In the Army you can get out if you’re a wack. | |
| Ladies’ Man (1985) 7: There was nobody out on Broadway except bag ladies and street whacks. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘You Need Hands’ Minder [TV script] 8: Who do you support, wack? | |
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| Guardian Guide 8–14 Jan. 26: Man, this town is so wack! |
2. (US campus) a fool.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 342: We call him Whacker the Australian, or Whack for short. |
In compounds
(US black) the onset of apparent insanity, usu. through the use of drugs.
| Prison Sl. 51: Whack Attack Acting crazed when experiencing the effects of PCP or an hallucinogenic drug. |
(US) an insane person, a madman; also attrib.
| After Hours 196: The real whack-jobs would get mad. | |
| Clockers 320: Let’s make sure he’s not some whack job who confesses to everything like a hobby. | |
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 252: He wasn’t up for small talk with Wack-Job Wanda tonight. | |
| Shame the Devil 59: Vance’s friends got a big charge out of it. Vance’s dad, the Vietnam vet and mail carrier — with that combo, he had to be some kind of wack job, right? | |
| in Times (L) 29 Oct. 19: A writer [...] quoted a ‘senior’ McCain adviser calling Mrs Palin a ‘whack job’, which roughly translates as worringly off her trolley. | |
| Star Island (2011) 82: He was actually an okay guy [...] for a whack job. | |
| Finders Keepers (2016) 317: He’s crazy. A total whack-job. | |
| Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘You have any idea how many of these whack-job groups there are in Michigan?’. |