whack v.1
1. (also whack into) to hit.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 20: Blast my eyes! if I don’t whack him. | ||
Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 368: And, prithee, very soon have done / With whacking Mary Shackleton. | ‘To Sarah Shackleton’ in A. Carpenter||
‘Hush Cat from under the Table’ Songs (publ. Monaghan) 4: And ever since that she never cry’d stop, / But whacking the cat from under the table. | ||
Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 305: I will lend a hand to whack ’em. | ||
in Bk of Sports 155: Jack Baker whacked his own father. | ||
Musa Pedestris (1896) 137: But said he I will not down you, if you will but disburse / Your rowdy with me, yeoman – I’m content to whack your purse! | ‘Bould Yeoman’ in Farmer||
Pippins and Pies 29: The three Bumpsteads, who whacked the three biggest boys in the school one morning. | ||
Bell’s Life in Sydney 1 Aug. 3/2: He got in again through the window and whacked me. | ||
‘Dizzy’s Lament’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 105: I dreamt that I was whacked with a birch. | ||
‘International Boat Race’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 146: He wack’d the moke till he made him start. | ||
Dagonet Ballads 104: ’Twas a lie; bless your soul, why he’d whacked her and kicked her night, morning, and noon. | ||
Dundee Courier (Scot.) 9 June 7/4: In three rounds he was done for. After that the rest let me alone, for the chap I’d whacked was reckoned the best man among them. | ||
(con. c.1840) Huckleberry Finn 111: If everybody don’t go just so he whacks their heads off. | ||
🎵 Pals start whackin’ him, when down he drops, Someone says he wasn’t made to go. | ‘Wot Cher!’||
Aus. Sl. Dict. 94: Whack, [...] a blow, to beat. | ||
Boy’s Own Paper 20 Oct. 37: I whacked him as hard as I could with an empty football bladder. | ||
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 25 Sept. 3/2: I then go home and whack her / [...] / It’s the only way to keep a blanky tart . | ||
Kipps (1952) 19: Sid was whacked, but, as he explained, he wore a newspaper tactically adjusted during the transaction. | ||
Fact’ry ’Ands 241: Down comes Fuzzy, ’n’ whacks into it agin. | ||
Truth (Sydney) 6 July 12/7: He did thump and whack her awful. / Beat her body black and blue. | ||
Carry on, Jeeves 41: [He] said he didn’t think he had ever seen such a fine day, and whacked his leg with his stick. | ||
Age Of Consent 217: She was whacking at Cora with a ragged length of paling. | ||
Final Curtain (1958) 64: ‘You can’t whack me,’ she shrieked. | ||
Come in Spinner (1960) 24: She’s whacking into the old girl like the devil. | ||
(con. 1940s) Borstal Boy 323: The bleeding screw [...] w’acks ’im over the arse. | ||
Crust on its Uppers 24: The slag [...] start grassing even before they’ve been whacked. | ||
(con. 1960s) Wanderers 104: If I ever hear you say another bad word, I’m gonna whack your behind. | ||
Bonfire of the Vanities 214: All I did was see the motherfucker whack that sucker. | ||
Yes We have No 129: She’d have given anything to whack him. | ||
Westsiders 189: He’d whack any man that came near her. | ||
Gutshot Straight [ebook] Jasper followed him into the bathroom and whacked him again. | ||
(con. 1991-94) City of Margins 19: ‘You didn’t have to whack him like that’. |
2. (also whack out) to defeat in a competition, to outdo.
Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Sept. 14/4: Though you had the King’s army, and we were only a lot of farmers, we whacked you! | ||
Maudie 52: ‘Youi’ve fair whacked me this time, petlet,’ he gasped. | ||
(con. 1928) Mad in Pursuit 90: ‘Going to beat everybody’ [...] ‘Going to whack everybody. Got a new punch like Tunney,’ Johnny added darkly. | ||
Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 35: I’ll get you trained so that you whack every man in the Free World. | ‘Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’||
Cannibals 85: She whacks him out in cards, tennis, skiing, you name it. | ||
Down All the Days 147: Ah you can’t whack the oul songs, girls. Such lovely words. | ||
Only Fools and Horses [TV script] I’m a great fan of the Byzantine period myself. I don’t think you can whack ’em you know. | ‘A Touch of Glass’||
Indep. Rev. 25 Sept. 1: Watson’s gonna get whacked. |
3. to criticize.
Letters of Ambrose Bierce (1922) 113: Yes, I was sorry to whack London, for whom, in his character as author, I have high admiration, and in that of publicist and reformer, a deep contempt. Even if he had been a personal friend I should have whacked him. | letter 3 Dec. in Pope
4. to hit in fig. sense, e.g. to sentence to prison.
Mop Fair 138: I seemed to get whacked every time as I went the bundle. | ||
Boy’s Own Paper XL:1 20: You’ll never whack her up more’n seven knots. | ||
letter 4 Oct. in Leader (2000) 294: Do whack these 2 requirements to me soon. | ||
Proud Highway (1997) 292: That bastard Ed the mailman whacked me with a bill for $76. | letter 10 Nov. in||
Letters of Irish Parish Priest 54: I don’t mind a person having a drink and a bit of a sing-song but this whacks all. | ||
Patriot Game (1985) 161: Then I whacked him with Greenan and Magro. | ||
Homeboy 144: Trepanian whacked Joe with the expected maximum of three years. | ||
Outlaws (ms.) 5: He’d whack it all in a extra big Head bag and cart it up through Priory Wood to Freddie Woan’s. |
5. (US) to lie.
DN III:ii 163: whack, v. To lie. ‘He’s a-whacking all right.’. | ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in
6. (also whack out) to murder, to kill; also fig.
We Who Are About to Die 73: If you get whacked, or get shot at, or get in a beef, it will be bad luck. | ||
Pulling a Train’ (2012) [ebook] Sit tight, whoor, an’ nobody gets whacked. | ‘Sex Gang’ in||
Cannibals 25: Here was the biggest man in television getting ready to whack out his best friend. | ||
(con. 1949) True Confessions (1979) 39: Colored lady whacked out her husband [...] Dropped a fifty-pound watermelon on his head. | ||
(con. 1970s) Donnie Brasco (2006) 326: Find out. Whoever gives us the snitch, we’ll pay. Then we’ll whack out the snitch. | ||
Goodfellas [film script] 53: You got out of line, you got whacked. | ||
Guardian Rev. 20 Aug. 11: Notorious B.I.G. got whacked. | ||
Guardian Rev. 4 Mar. 3: I tried to whack myself out with pills... All I got was sick. | ||
Charlie Opera 64: Why the fuck a pair of detectives are talking qwith a guy I’m supposed to whack out. | ||
Skinny Dip 235: That’s two girls you whacked. What’s up with you. | ||
(con. 1973) Johnny Porno 16: They whack a guy, leave the body so it’ll be found. | ||
Thrill City [ebook] The police think the Red Devils found and whacked him. | ||
🎵 Don’t make a phone-call, get a man whacked. | ‘Waps’||
The Force [ebook] ‘Half North Manhattan wants to whack us’. | ||
Joe Country [ebook] ‘[H]e has no reason to want to whack the head of the Service’s steering committee’. | ||
Broken 70: [A] video of herself whacking some guy. | ‘Crime 101’ in||
Orphan Road 113: ‘Everyone was tense, always worried about getting whacked’. |
7. (US, also whack off) lit. or fig., to cut or chop.
Thieves Like Us (1999) 43: It’s pretty tough when a man will take a hatchet and whack his arm off. | ||
20 Mar. [synd. col.] Let’s talk about her losing weight [...] ‘How‘d you happen to whack it off?’ I asked. | ||
Sl. U. 203: whack [...] 2. to cut (hair). | ||
Dead Mans Head 152: Uncle Ted [...] whacked him off another slice. | ||
Vatican Bloodbath 10: ‘FUCK YOU, PIG!’ said one disciple, grabbing his sword and whacking the head off a Roman Centurion. |
8. to masturbate.
in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 523: I was tooling along, / Just a-whacking my prick. | ||
Ladies’ Man (1985) 188: It was whacking your pud. | ||
Incest Schoolgirls 🌐 Mr. Davidson whacked his cock, pumped his prick, drubbed his dick. | ||
College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Wack [...] 4. (verb) To beat your meat; to jack off; to masturbate (male). | ||
Finders Keepers (2016) 70: A horn honked [...] Pete jumped and looked around guiltily, as if he’d been whacking. |
9. (US drugs) to dilute or ‘cut’ a narcotic.
Dealer 69: Coke will only take so much whackin. It may be good coke, but it’s whacked to the bone by the time you get a twenty-dollar spoon. | ||
Angel Dust 179: The drug is ‘cut’ or ‘wacked’ with up to fifty per cent of an additional nonintoxicating substance. | et al.||
(con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 36: He produces a baggie filled with yellowish powder [...] and points to the white powdery lactose that he ‘whacks’ (mixes) it with to get shake. | ||
Betrayal in Blue 143: [W]hat we had tested 94 percent pure cocaine. At that purity rate I was able to ‘step on it,’ ‘cut it,’ or ‘whack it’ quite a bit. |
10. (Scot.) to tolerate.
April Dead 230: ‘Cannae whack it [i.e. the sight of blood], can you?’ he said. ‘Never could, not since we were wee boys.’. |
In compounds
a brothel.
Sailortown 25: The majority, in all truth, nothing more than prostitutes from the dens and whackhouses of the London waterfront. | ||
Fits & Starts 198: We must imagine the unfortunate Marquis arriving [...] by Hispano-Suiza caravan, fitted up, I daresay, as a luxurious whackhouse on wheels. |
In phrases
1. to set to on a task enthusiastically.
Adventure in Algeria 258: I have never seen two kids whack into a meal with greater relish. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
2. see sense 1 above.
to masturbate.
World’s Toughest Prison 822: whack it – Self-abuse. Masturbation. | ||
Essential Lenny Bruce 237: Imagine Kennedy [...] whacking it to Miss July once in a while. | ||
in Erotic Muse (1992) 271: What a cock! What a cock! / He spent his life whacking it, / What a cock! | ||
Union Dues (1978) 19: They tell me if it falls off, you keep whackin at it like that. | ||
Rolling Stone 14 Oct. 🌐 Keeping up with Trump revelations is exhausting. By late October, he’ll be caught whacking it outside a nunnery. |
of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 117: Exe[acute]cuter. To copulate; ‘to whack it up.’. | ||
Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 23: Take out that bald-headed hermit! (he interrupted himself) Whack it up! Wollop it in! | ||
True Love 177: She thinks she’s so good; she doesn’t need any silly old man to maul her, to whack it up her. Why? Because she’s so far up herself. | ||
Dict. of Invective (1991) 409: The whack that is a vigorous blow also having given rise to whack it up, British slang from ca. 1900 for copulation. | ||
Foetal Attraction (1994) 185: A charming piece of graffiti caught her eye: ‘Never mind the love and passion; whack it up her doggy-fashion.’. |
to defend or support successfully.
Le Slang. |
(US) to attack aggressively.
McCook Trib. (NE) 3 June 5/3: Hurrah! Hurrah! we’ll whack it to old Spain. |
(Aus.) to do something energetically.
Aussie (France) VIII Oct. 14/1: Then look at those pongos who dolled themselves up as W.A.A.C’s and tooted down to Paris. [...] Of course, there was a bust-up all round, and the roar of the mix-up that naturally followed brought up a whole platoon of Red-caps. The W.A.A.C’s are still whacking it up on pack-drill! |
to destroy.
How to Talk Dirty 54: You could whack it out in two days with the antibiotics. | ||
145th Street 124: The Man could collar the heavies but if they did they would just let the dogs looseand the bust would be wacked out . | ‘A Story in Three Parts’ in
(orig. US) to beat hard.
How to Talk Dirty 3: My father would [...] whack the crap out of me. | ||
Liberated Lady 226: But in his fantasy it sure felt good to whack the crap out of her, like he felt she had emotionally done to him. | ||
HWM Mag. Sept. 76: Hell Knights can whack the crap out of you and fire plasma in your face. |
to masturbate.
🌐 That said, just because you’re coupled, I don’t think you have to stop whacking the weasel. | ‘Gayity’ in Out in the Mountains XVII:3 Apr. on MountainPrideMedia.org||
Number One Adult Sexual Health Terms Advisor 🌐 Masturbation Slang Male Terms: [...] wack the weasel/Willie/one-eyed worm. |