Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. idiomatic Wrong, broken; specifically.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. [Slang] out of order.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. out of balance or out of adjustment
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘out of whack’.
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Situation Normal
inspired by Mistakes Were Made. Words for things going wrong in a manner particularly violent, stupid, soul-crushing, boggling, grandiose, or any combination of these qualities.
writeoff, wreck, bust, washout, turkey, untergang, undoing, total loss, flop, muck up, louse-up, goof-up and 156 more...
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
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Jheti's Words
ordinarily, diacritic, intrinsic, coalesce, salient, valence, crenellations, expurgate, relapse, disconsolate, matriculation, corrugated and 128 more...
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Fun Phrases & Idioms3
splitting hairs, down the hatch, have a cow, hit rock bottom, high on the hog, hold your horses, shit hits the fan, going nowhere fast, fat chance, twist of fate, odds-on favorite, horse feathers and 72 more...
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purpleboy's Words
prestidigitation, antidisestablishm..., geschwindigkeitsg..., Übungsheft, oberwieserdampfsc..., fuzzwuff, wonky, doldrums, galoot, fussboden, out of whack, discombobulated and 5 more...
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trivet I wasn't hatin', I was helping ;) Sep 24, 2007
uselessness Aww, trivet, why you gotta hate? (Nice like though...) Sep 24, 2007
palooka Sounds logical to me uselessness. Sep 24, 2007
trivet A less madeupical explanation here. Sep 24, 2007
uselessness I'm assuming it comes from the old joke about whacking a piece of malfunctioning hardware to get it to work again. If the "technique" works, it's probably only going to be temporary. Once the effect wears off, the machine is out of whack again. This is totally madeupical, of course, but you never know... Sep 24, 2007
palooka Colorful & useful phrase purpleboy! I wonder what the "whack" in out of whack refers to? Can something be "in whack"? Sep 24, 2007
purpleboy Something that's a little broken or messed up. Like wonky. Sep 24, 2007