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Meanings of whack in English

Portuguese
golpe
Catalan
cop
Spanish
golpe

The act of hitting vigorously.

golpe
Portuguese
bater

Hit hard.

bater
Synonyms
Examples for "wallop"
Examples for "wallop"
1
He took a stiff wallop of the bourbon and said, Go ahead.
The illuminatus! trilogy
2
Then Robert Pirès set up David Trezeguet to wallop a golden goal.
The Guardian
3
Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman packed a wallop with a career-high 28 points as No.
Reuters
4
This third wallop was then followed by a fourth and a fifth.
The wave: in pursuit of the rogues, freaks and giants of the oce...
5
Not perfect, not a lot of range, but a lot of wallop.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
1
Makes you wonder why you didn't just wham, kiss-of-death me back there.
Blood rites
2
Grim forecasts from Applied Materials and Nvidia wham chip stocks .
Reuters
3
Well, when Patrick pulled the knife, my heart commenced to wham like thunder.
Savage
4
When you fall down and you wham your chest, sometimes you can't breathe.
Underground
5
Soon it ceased to be a click, click, and became a wham, wham.
The Life of Me: An Autobiography
1
Mother would whop me if I came back without the basket again.
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
2
Then I reckon I'll whop him till he's wore to a frazzle.
Man-Size
3
I've got a right smart good chanct, now, to whop ol' Satan.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
4
The whop, whop of the giant rescue chopper ricocheted up the valley.
Rock and Ice Magazine
5
If not, Deets could whop him-Deetswas a good hand-to-handfighter.
Lonesome dove
Usage of whack in English
1
Well, there's a good chance they'll just take another whack at it.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
He heard the whack of the bullet in flesh and fired again.
Cat and Mouse
3
And it's an innovation that probably cost the station a fair whack.
The Irish Times
4
Iss called 'sex reassignment surgery,' and they don't just whack everything off.
Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
5
I'm not sure, but I still whack it on full of hope.
News.com.au
6
At that point I knew that Jimmy was going to whack Marty.
Wiseguy
7
Then someone whack him with something heavy, and hope he falls down.
Swipe
8
I yanked his helmet off and gave him one more good whack.
Exit wound
9
This approach has, predictably enough, devolved into a self-sustaining game of whack-a-mole.
Wired
10
But it's let down by a too-brief campaign and out-of- whack AI.
The Irish Times
11
Again the stone swings back and gives the bear a hard whack.
The Wonders of the Jungle, Book One
12
He used the pipe to whack at anything that came near him.
The Death Cure
13
One whack with a boat propeller, one erosion point, sand's outta there.
Break No Bones
14
And people can whack my cast and I won't even feel it.
The well and the mine
15
Keeping a lid on those cases is like playing whack-a-mole with coronavirus.
News.com.au
16
It's not that he's dangerous, but his impulses are out of whack.
Body work
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Translations for whack
Spanish
golpe
Whack through the time
Whack across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common