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▪ I. whack, n. colloq.|hwæk|
Also 8–9 Sc. whawk, whauk, 9 wack.
[? Echoic: perh. an alteration of thwack.]
1. a. A vigorous stroke with a stick or the like; a heavy resounding blow; also the sound of this.
1737Ramsay Sc. Prov. (1750) 13 As sair greets the bairn that's paid at e'en, as he that gets his whawks in the morning. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 477 Whack, a blow, a thump. 1832Barrington Pers. Sk. III. xviii. 242, I never saw..any dangerous contusion from what they called ‘whacks’ of the shillelah. 1854Surtees Handley Cr. lxxiii, Bill gave the boy two or three more hearty whacks, and then kicked him into the hosier's shop. 1860Thackeray Lovel v, Bessy's ‘Ah!’ or little cry was followed by a whack, which I heard as clear as anything I ever heard in my life.
b. to have or take a whack at: to make an attempt or attack upon. U.S.
1891Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 June 2/2 There are thousands..who..are anxious to have a whack, at the polls, at the party that deceived them. 1894Advance (Chicago) 20 Dec. 418/1 Mother's got over her long weak spell, and is able to take a whack at doings.
2. a. A portion, share, allowance; esp. a full share, a large portion or amount.
Chiefly in phr. to get, have, take one's whack.
1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Whack, a share of a booty obtained by fraud. 1790Alex. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 51 Whauks o' guid ait-farll cowins Synet down wi' whey. 1805C. Paget in P. Papers (1896) II. 162 My whack of prize money..will be about fifty thousand Pounds. 1830Marryat King's Own xxxiv, ‘I'll punish the port to-morrow.’.. ‘I'll take my whack to-day.’ 1874Slang Dict. 338 To go whacks, to divide equally; to enter into partnership. 1894Sir J. D. Astley Fifty Yrs. Life II. 119 He could not trust himself to take a fair whack of liquor without taking too much. 1918Blackw. Mag. July 43/2 I've had a run for my money this whack of leave.
b. A dividing up of accounts. Also more generally, a sharing-up or distribution.
1885W. T. Hornaday Two Yrs. in Jungle xxiv. 284 When the Colombo rice merchants, shopmen, the hotel-keepers have their quarterly ‘whack-up’ with the government. 1896Ade Artie xii. 107 He hadn't been in on the whack-up six weeks till he was wearing one o' them bicycle lamps in his neck-tie. 1912R. A. Wason Friar Tuck xi. 85 ‘What ya goin' to kill her with?’ he asked, his eyes dancin' like an Injun's at the beef whack-up.
c. U.S. A bargain or agreement. Esp. in phr. it's (or that's) a whack.
1860Johnson's Orig. Comic Songs (ed. 2) 45, I axed her for to marry me, she said it was a whack. 1876‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer vi. 70 I'll stay if you will.’ ‘Good—that's a whack’. 1884J. Hay Bread-Winners x. 149 Say the word, and it's a whack. 1903A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine xviii. 146 ‘I'll guarantee to get him to take you to Grand Menan with him.’ ‘It's a whack,’ said Jim. 1911Dialect Notes III. 540 Whack,..an agreement, a ‘go’; e.g., ‘That's a whack!’
3. As int. or adv.: With a whack (in sense 1).
1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Archit. Atoms, Jill..bobbs plump against him, whack! 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy v, Whack came the cane on Johnny's shoulders. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. ii, Whack, whack, whack, come his blows.
4. out of whack: disordered, malfunctioning; out of order or alignment. Cf. wacky a. Chiefly U.S.
a. Of a person or a part of the body.
1885C. A. Siringo Texas Cowboy v. 33, I was too weak to walk that far on account of my back being out of whack. 1899Ade Doc' Horne viii. 79 My stomach seems to be out of whack. 1903A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise vi. 146 At last he utterly gets his thinker out of whack an' goes back to the villa. 1918H. A. Vachell Some Happenings xii. 205 His liver is out of whack and no mistake. 1969‘V. Packer’ Don't rely on Gemini (1970) xviii. 150 Margaret had had symptoms of early menopause last winter: that had thrown her way out of whack, could conceivably explain such erratic and erotic behaviour.
b. Of a mechanism.
1906McClure's Mag. Feb. 34 Being able to get at any part of the mechanism which may be ‘out of whack’ is important. 1934D. Hammett Thin Man xi. 77 The phone in the apartment was out of whack. 1949Time 30 May 53/2 With normal vibration a lot of them would have gone out of whack. 1975New Yorker 28 Apr. 40/3 He sends no message on the tape recorder to the little boys, because they have already put the machine out of whack. 1985Mail on Sunday (Colour Suppl.) 3 Mar. 20/2 The body's like an automobile. You have to rest and repair it, not run with the motor out of whack.
c. fig.
1952C. Armstrong Black-Eyed Stranger xiv. 117 Ambielli's got principles. They are a little off, slightly out of whack. 1973in G. Gibson Eleven Canad. Novelists 123, I don't know whether it is because my own sense of sexual timing or whatever is out of ‘whack’ with everybody else's. 1975M. Amis Dead Babies v. 33 Everything is out of whack at Appleseed Rectory; its rooms are without bearing and without certainty. 1978S. Brill Teamsters vi. 250 In the next decade..the bad loans and poor investment management would..start to throw the cash-flow projections out of whack.
Sense 1 b in Dict. becomes 1 c. Add: [1.] b. fig. A chance, a turn or attempt; a ‘go’. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1884Century Mag. Nov. 60/2 Lucky whack it was for me that I got here to-day, and in time to save the mine! 1941J. Stuart Men of Mountains 168 Hang around and watch people flock in at a quarter a whack to see this tonight. 1958J. Cannan And be Villain i. 24 Mrs Fitch always lays the tea before she goes and it maddened Richard to have her popping in and out and leaving the door open. Now it all comes at one whack, you see. 1988Muscular Devel. Nov. 55/1 Many fitness and sports medicine clinics use hydrostatic weighing or skinfold techniques..and..this can become expensive at $25–$40 a whack.
[2.] d. top or (the) full whack, the maximum price or rate.
1976Drive Nov.–Dec. 50/1 The 1.3s have a reasonable turn of speed, too: top whack is 86mph. 1978N. J. Crisp London Deal vii. 113 ‘That car..is worth at least fifteen hundred.’ ‘Not to me... A thousand. Top whack... Have we got a deal?’ 1985Times 25 May 21/4 The company admits that it paid top whack for its high street stores. 1989Money Observer Jan. 63/4 Payments then rise by 5.0 per cent a year, so you pay the full whack after eight or nine years.
▪ II. whack, v. colloq.|hwæk|
Also 8–9 Sc. whauk.
[See prec.]
1. a. trans. To beat or strike vigorously, as with a stick; to thrash.
1721Ramsay's Poems I. Gloss. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 334 Many and many a good time have I whacked the Rascal's Jacket. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole Introd. (1879) 3 The sheriffs..whacked each other soundly with their wands. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 225 When the husband loses his temper,..he whacks his wife.
absol. or intr.1852C. W. Day Five Yrs.' Resid. W. Indies I. 304 Whacking away, I finally severed his head from his body. 1898M. M. Dowie Crook of Bough xxiii, Her tough tweeds whacked on the ivory lintel.
b. fig. To beat in a contest.
1877Holderness Gloss. s.v., Ah can whack him onny day at sums.
2. transf. and fig. Substituted for ‘put’, ‘bring’, ‘get’, etc., with implication of vigorous or violent action; cf. knock up.
1719Ramsay 3rd Answ. to Hamilton viii, Why should we..thole sae aft the Spleen to whauk us Out of our Reason? 1861J. Barr Poems 154 (E.D.D.) A rotten stump my brain had rackit..Till Doctor Manning oot did whack it. 1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. x. 219 If I design to paint a head, or a foot, or an arm, I get my little old Sarah Jane to peel the particular charm, and just whack her in on the canvas. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. v. 115 When they whacked up a match 'twix' his sister Hitty an' Lorin' Jerauld. 1903― Their Lawful Occas. i. in Traffics & Discov. 117 Can we whack her [sc. a torpedo-boat] up to fifteen, d'you think?
3. [See prec. 2.] To share, divide. Also with up.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Wack, to share or divide any thing equally. 1821Life D. Haggart (ed. 2) 94 We got twenty-two screaves by this adventure, which we whacked. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xlviii, We hadn't much trouble dividing the gold, and what cash there was we could whack easy enough. 1893H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi 77 Whack up, an expression employed by all classes, probably as semi-slang, to mean to divide, to share. 1961Coast to Coast 1959–60 126 I'll whack up the breakfast, then, and see how poor bloody Bill's getting on. 1981Amer. Speech LVI. 27 The DARE project has turned up whack it up, whack up (two informants for each).
4. intr. With off: to masturbate. U.S. slang.
1969P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 78 Did I mention that when I was fifteen I took it out of my pants and whacked off on the 107 bus from New York? 1969Listener 17 Apr. 538/3 Fellatio with the Monkey does not present the same practical difficulties as whacking off in Momma's bathroom. 1977Transatlantic Rev. lx. 36 ‘What-in-hell you do for sex anyway?’ he asked the boy one night. ‘Whack off into the tin pot where they keep the mashed potatoes?’
▸ trans. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.). Chiefly among members of the criminal underworld, esp. the Mafia: to murder, esp. to execute. Also with out.
1973V. Teresa & T. C. Renner My Life in Mafia iv. 48 They couldn't let a punk like him defy them... So they whacked him out and everyone fell in line after that. 1976P. Hoffman & I. Pecznick To drop a Dime (1977) 40 We'll take him in his car and whack him. 1985N. Pileggi Wiseguy 231, I told him that if Jimmy wanted to whack me out, he could walk right in the front door, borrow a gun from one of the guards, blow me away in my cell, and walk out without being stopped. 1992Times 12 Mar. 10/3 Hitting..the sister of another mobster-turncoat..broke the ancient rule that wiseguys do not whack women. 1998N.Y. Mag. 13 Apr. 34 The kid got whacked after his father slapped..the Gambino underboss.
▪ III. whack
dial. form of quack v.2
1807Hogg Mountain Bard, Pedlar xxiv, The ducks they whackit, the dogs they yowled.
▪ IV. whack
var. wack. |