What (who) is whack - definition
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Whack; WACK!; Wack (disambiguation)
whack
When somebody thinks she has something that is cool but really, it's not.
Put that Nokia 6190 down, that junk is whack. It's all about the 8890.
Put that Nokia 6190 down, that junk is whack. It's all about the 8890.
whack
(whacks, whacking, whacked)
1.
If you whack someone or something, you hit them hard. (INFORMAL)
You really have to whack the ball...
Someone whacked him on the head.
VERB: V n, V n prep
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Whack is also a noun.
He gave the donkey a whack across the back with his stick...
N-COUNT; SOUND
2.
Your whack of something is your share of it. (BRIT INFORMAL)
The majority of people in this country pay their whack...
We need to win a fair whack of the contracts.
= share
N-SING: oft poss N
whack
According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a
program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See
whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial
circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you
are very good at glarking things from context. As a trivial
example, it is relatively easy to change all "stderr" writes
to "stdout" writes in a piece of C filter code which remains
otherwise mysterious.
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Pronunciation examples for whack
1. pops its head up, and you whack it, and whack it, and whack it.
Getting There _ Gillian Segal _ Talks at Google
2. That's a whack.
Black Poems _ Clint Smith _ Talks at Google
3. It's out of whack.
Humans Need Not Apply _ Jerry Kaplan _ Talks at Google
4. She said, that's whack.
Eric Roberson Improv with Audience _ Talks at Google
5. She said that's whack.
Live Performance Eric Roberson _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of whack
1. The whack, whack, whack of the drilling rig, Stanley said, "was the sound of money, as far as we‘re concerned."
2. This has thrown farmers‘ traditional planting schedules out of whack.
3. Blair says the EU‘s budget is still out of whack.
4. "Something is out of whack!" McCain says with a grin.
5. "People need to realize that local school district budgets are scrutinized by boards and taxpayers, and whenever they get out of whack, taxpayers bring them back into whack," he says.