whacked, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

whacked adj.

also wacked

1. completely shocked, overcome.

1905		A. Binstead Mop Fair 98: Marvellous! Stupendous! I am whacked to the world.
1997		N. Barlay Curvy Lovebox 178: I look at Char feelin’ wacked. Kinda gutted.

2. beaten, defeated.

1905		Sporting Times 14 Jan. 1/5: His City and Sub. cert. had got whacked.
1912		Sport (Adelaide) 15 June 14/1: They Say [...] That Alby didn’t go to Houghton because the heads said he was not to get ‘whacked‘ when far from home.
1920		Marvel 29 May 3: My boy’s not whacked yet. He’s only downed once.
1940		H. Champion ‘Everywhere You Go (You’ll Find a Soldier)’ [monologue] Don’t worry about the war, Old England can’t be whacked.
1970		B. Crump ‘A Good Keen Girl’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 241: I had to hand it to Bert [...] when it came to handling women he certainly had me whacked.
2002		D.H. Sterry Chicken (2003) 187: Jade was probably junked up [...] got herself whacked or jacked or smacked.

3. absolutely exhausted; thus ext. whacked to the wide.

1915		L.D. Richards diary 11 Mar. 🌐 We ‘kept on keeping on’ for 14 miles altogether, and we felt whacked.
1916		F. Dunham diary 28 Nov. Long Carry (1970) 14: This was about 3.30 a.m., all felt ‘whacked to the wide.’.
1925		(con. WWI) Fraser & Gibbons Soldier and Sailor Words 303: Whacked To The Wide: Tired out.
1938		G. Kersh Night and the City 74: You ought to get a bit o’ sleep. You look whacked.
1945		(con. 1939) R. Westerby Mad in Pursuit 173: The last round killed you. You’re whacked.
1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 129: Personally, I’m too whacked to do anything more — exhausted.
1966		P. Boyle At Night All Cats Are Grey 209: ‘I’m whacked to the ropes,’ he groaned.
1976		P. Theroux Family Arsenal 55: ‘I’m whacked,’ she said. ‘Not tonight.’.
1986		F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 277: He lay back, too whacked by the heat to pursue this line of argument.
1992		D. Jarman diary 31 Oct. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 245: He drove me back as he could see I was whacked.
2000		Guardian Travel 15 Jan. 12: We were late and tired and totally whacked.
2010		L. Berney Gutshot Straight [ebook] ‘Wanna stay in and order room service? I’m whacked’.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 450: ‘Find yourself somewhere to sit. You look whacked’.

4. (US campus, also wacked up, whacked up) eccentric.

1947		I. Shulman Amboy Dukes 82: The cops’ve been asking us all sorts of whacked-up questions.
1961		T.I. Rubin In the Life 140: It’s just nuts, Doc, wacked up.
1964		L. Hansberry Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window in Three Negro Plays (1969) I i: I may be whacked up, sweetie, but I really would hate to see the inside of your stomach.
1977		Maledicta 1 (Summer) 11: In ordinary speech or slang today, a disliked person is often accused of being a masturbator, of not being sexually adult. [...] He is whacky, or whacked to the gills; he is wonked goggle-eyed, or is suffering from Wanker’s Doom.
1997–2000		Da Bomb 🌐 30: Whacked: Crazy; different.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 351: ‘Eve’s so whacked...’ he points at his temple, makes a circle.

5. overcome by an excess of drink or drugs.

1972		J. McNeill Old Familiar Juice (1973) 104: stanley I’m half-whacked meself.
1979		Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 97: Should’ve seen Cheryl at Taren Point dance. She was so whacked.
1992		K. Lette Llama Parlour 102: Don’t weird me out. You’re whacked. You dunno what you’re sayin’.
2004		J. Ellroy ‘Hot-Prowl Rape-O’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 293: He’s wacked on coke and spilling all this paranoia.

6. (orig. US campus) stupid.

1992		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 9: wacked – extremely out of style or out of touch: ‘His ideas about national politics are wacked.’.
1997–2000		Da Bomb 🌐 30: Whacked: Stupid, dumb; ignorant.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 32: You can’t wander into estate agents with bags full of readies [...] though some whacked guys try.

7. ruined, in disrepair.

2001

N. Barlay Hooky Gear 298: Their garms is whacked.