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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the sound made by a sharp swift blow;

2. the act of hitting vigorously;
- Example: "he gave the table a whack"
[syn: knock, belt, rap, whack, whang]


VERB (1)

1. hit hard;
- Example: "The teacher whacked the boy"
[syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Whack \Whack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Whacking.] [Cf. Thwack.] 1. To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes. --G. W. Cable. [1913 Webster] 2. To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a robbery; -- often with up. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Whack \Whack\, v. i. To strike anything with a smart blow. [1913 Webster] To whack away, to continue striking heavy blows; as, to whack away at a log. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Whack \Whack\, n. 1. A smart resounding blow. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 2. A portion; share; allowance. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. an attempt; as, to take a whack at it. [Colloq.] [PJC] Out of whack, out of order. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

whack n 1: the sound made by a sharp swift blow 2: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: knock, belt, rap, whack, whang] v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

129 Moby Thesaurus words for "whack": approach, assay, attempt, bang, bash, bat, beating, belt, bid, biff, blow, bonk, bout, box, box the ears, buffet, bump, burst, bust, catch, chance, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock, crack, crash, crump, cuff, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, dint, drub, drubbing, drumming, effort, endeavor, essay, experiment, fetch, fetch a blow, flap, fling, flop, fusillade, gambit, go, hit, hit a clip, inning, innings, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out, let have it, lick, move, offer, opportunity, paste, pelt, place, plunk, poke, pop, pound, punch, rap, relief, report, round, say, shot, slam, slap, slap the face, slat, slog, slug, smack, smash, smite, snap, soak, sock, spell, splat, stab, stagger, step, strike, strike at, stroke, strong bid, swap, swat, swing, swipe, tap, tattoo, tentative, thump, thwack, time, time at bat, token punishment, trial, trial and error, try, turn, undertaking, wallop, wham, whap, whirl, whomp, whop, yerk
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

whack v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), 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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

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. [Jargon File]