whack
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
- The sound of a heavy strike.
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The strike itself.
— Saka was a threat from the first whistle; Ukraine rightly wary of him and dishing out the usual whacks.
- The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
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An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
— C'mon. Take a whack at it.
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A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
— I don’t care about much wine afterwards—I take my whack at dinner—I mean my share, you know; and when I have had as much as I want I toddle up to tea.
- A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
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A deal, an agreement.
— "I'll stay if you will." "Good—that's a whack."
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A harmful outcome or repercussion.
— But I rely on you to give me the nod in time to get Cora clear off whatever happens. I can take my own whack as it comes—as I always have done.
- PCP, phencyclidine (also wack).
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The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
— del c:\docs\readme.txt Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.
动词 v.
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To hit, slap or strike.
— The bat whacked the baseball.
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To assassinate, bump off.
— Niko Bellic: So you want me to talk to him? / Jimmy Pegorino: I want you to whack him! And after that I want you to kill all the other rats I surround myself with...
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To share or parcel out (often with up).
— to whack the spoils of a robbery
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To beat convincingly; to thrash.
— The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.
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To surpass; to better.
— Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!
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To attempt something despite not knowing how to do it; to take on a task spontaneously and carelessly without planning.
— Miss Loi always tells her students not to anyhow whack, stay calm and know thy approach before attempting each question.
- To eat something hurriedly.
形容词 adj.
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Alternative spelling of wack (“annoyingly or disappointingly bad”).
— That's whack, yo!
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”).
词源 2
Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”).
词源 3
Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”).
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