Green’s Dictionary of Slang

whack v.2

also wack
[whack n.1 ]

1. (also whack out, whack up) to share or divide equally; thus whack the blunt v., to share out the money; whacking n., a division, a share-out.

Dublin Baker [broadsheet ballad] I wish’d them good night and sat down to cheir [i.e. cheer, food], / [I] whack’d the spoil with my comrad dear.
[UK]Vaux Vocab. of the Flash Lang.
[Scot]D. Haggart Autobiog. 41: I whack’t the smash between Bagrie and Paterson, but kept none to myself.
[UK]‘Now!’ in Rum Ti Tum! in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 170: Altogether in a bunch our alls ve’ll whack.
[US]Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 14 May n.p.: After they had whacked each other [...] agreed to whack the rowdy.
[Aus]Bell’s Life in Sydney 27 Sept. 3/2: It was mutually agreed to whack the blunt between them.
[UK]‘Epistle from Joe Muggins’s Dog’ in Era (London) 12 Aug. 3/3: [I]f ther Scott and Day parties didn't lay their heds together to ‘wack it’ atween ’em, never beleeve me agen. ’Twas hevident they'd squared it.
[UK](con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor II 154/2: Long J-- and I got to quarrel about the ‘whacking;’ there was cheatin’ a goin’ on; it wasn’t all fair and above board.
[Aus]Bell’s Life in Sydney 2 Mar. 3/3: If she would wait while she ran to her ‘uncle’s’ she would on her return ’whack the ready’.
[UK]Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 69/1: The ‘sugar was whacked,’ and after a ‘shant’ or two with the ‘cop’ we parted from him.
[US] ‘The Jolly Vaquero’ in Lingenfelter et al. Songs of the Amer. West (1968) 337: He’ll ‘wack up’ his blankets, or share his ‘grub.’.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Jan. 6/4: [A]lthough the Queen would never have dreamt of marrying him, still she is far-seeing, and, naturally, would have no objection to find his fortune whacked amongst her poor little boys and girls.
[Aus]‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Robbery Under Arms (1922) 82: He cashed the cheques and drew the lot in notes and gold [...] and then we ‘whacked’ the lot.
[Aus]Truth (Sydney) 11 Mar. 4/5: Many eminent solicitors [...] whacked the plunder with Jabez [Balfour]. Eminent chartered accountants ditto.
[UK]G.F. Northall Warwickshire Word-Book 263: Whack. To divide, share.
[Aus]Dubbo Liberal (NSW) 17 June 3/3: But terror wasn’t half so bad, / When ‘whacked’ amongst the three.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 26 May 14/2: The same officer [...] mentioned that one of the blackfellows is married to a white woman, who buys the stuff – they drink crude wine most – and whacks it with her lord.
[Aus]C.E.W. Bean Anzac Book 101: For they’d whacked the Fray Bentos among them, / And each man had perished from thirst.
[UK](con. WWI) ‘Taffrail’ ‘A Little Drop o’ Leaf’ in Little Ship 243: Th’ orficer wants a bit o’ bacca out o’ your bundle. I whacked it out to the last bloke.
[UK](con. 1914–18) Brophy & Partridge Songs and Sl. of the British Soldier 177: Whack Out. — Variation of Dish-out.
[US]Goldin et al. DAUL 235/2: Whack, v. 1. To declare; to give, as a portion of loot.
[US]‘Hal Ellson’ Rock 84: Whack even all round or we tell the cops what you got here.
[US]E. Torres After Hours 66: ‘I know you guys whacked up the swag between you’.
[US]C. Stella Charlie Opera 81: Maybe the hit man who shook him down for an extra fifteen grand was whacking the money with Uncle Anthony.
[Aus]M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 140: Come on, Pete. Whack up. [i.e. share a woman sexually].

2. to charge money; usu. as whack for.

[US]R. Starnes Grant’s Tomb 26: The Umbrella Man, then, was the one who [...] after whacking a percentage, paid off certain policemen.
[US]H.S. Thompson letter 21 July in Proud Highway (1997) 278: I have just whacked Rogue magazine for $350.
[US]G.V. Higgins Cogan’s Trade (1975) 72: You know what that son of a bitch whacked me for Maine? Five hundred a day and expenses.

In phrases

in whack (with)

taking (equal) shares.

[US]E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 45: They had been in ‘whack’ with each other, divvied up marbles, shoelaces, and stale doughnuts they had crooked from Becker’s Bakery.