英语词汇“whack”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | noun

whackwhack1 /wæk/ verb [transitive] informal

ETYMOLOGYwhack¹

Origin: 1700-1800 Probably from the sound of hitting

VERB TABLE

whack

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	whack
	he, she, it	whacks
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	whacked
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have whacked
	he, she, it	has whacked
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had whacked
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will whack
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have whacked

Continuous Form
Present	I	am whacking
	he, she, it	is whacking
	you, we, they	are whacking
Past	I, he, she, it	was whacking
	you, we, they	were whacking
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been whacking
	he, she, it	has been whacking
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been whacking
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be whacking
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been whacking

1to hit someone or something hard: Someone whacked the side of my car with their door.2to kill someone, especially someone who is involved in crime, as a punishment for something he or she has done

verb | noun

whackwhack2 noun [countable] spoken

COLLOCATIONS► took a whack at

Singleton took a whack at (=tried to hit) Miller’s head.

1the act of hitting something hard or the noise this makes: She gave my hand a whack with a ruler. Singleton took a whack at (=tried to hit) Miller’s head.2out of whack if a system, machine, etc. is out of whack, the parts are not working together correctly: The printer is out of whack again.3take a whack at something to try to do something4in one whack all on one occasion: Steve lost $500 in one whack.