Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person regarded as eccentric.
- adj. Very bad: walked out of a really wack movie.
Wiktionary
- adj. Egregious
- adj. bad (as in not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, inauthentic, lame, or strange.
- adj. slang crazy, mad, insane
- n. An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.
Etymologies
- Back-formation from wacky. (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from wacky. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Now this nut wack is out there telling her few supporters to not use "her" tactics when trying to have a health care dicussion.”
“People who believe that "McCain wack-America need change, Obama be dat" is a moving and deep political slogan.”
“All ya'll is fuckin wack he was one of the greatest rappers alive ya'll better respect him cuz without him hip-hop wouldn't even have exsisted so step brandon guerilla black shoulda played biggie and the cast does look pretty weak”
“Monk, tell yr momz to stop bustin 'wack~ass rhymes!!!”
“Just call it wack and go on about your business of treating those with a different world view as something to poop on.”
“A recent New York Times crossword attracted quite a lot of notice after a reader tried to school The Times's puzzle master Will Shortz on what she sees as the semantic differences between the hip-hop terms "wack" and "illin.”
“Shampoos on the market can have "wack" chemicals in them, as Grist's Umbra Fiske puts it, linked to cancer, reproductive and developmental issues.”
“(Ignatieff used to work at Harvard's Kennedy School; now he's Prime Chancellor of Canada's Liberal Delegate or whatever kind of wack-ass, kumbaya government they've got up there.)”
“I'm telling that : it " wack " like a duck, it walks like a duck, it smells like a duck , i step into a duck poo.....nah, it's a Virtual World :”
“Preoccupied with stories like these, I’ve become Vanity Fair’s in-house designee for cold-call wack jobs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wack’.
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Bike Snob'isms
words I saw while reading the Bike Snob
helment, scranus, podium, sangue borse, hipster, dandydom, effete, douchebag, douchebags, Lobweh, Portland, brakeless track bike and 328 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wyrd, wynd, wyn, wye, wuthering, wurzel, wurst, wurley, wuffler, wrox, wroth, wrongous and 282 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
The History of Cool
Words that mean "cool" around the world and through the ages.
cool, awesome, wild, stylin', groovy, neat, nifty, swell, great, tubular, radical, bitchin' and 188 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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misping's Words
bungalo, rich, ontology, feet, possum, bon voyage, gorilla, snog, pistachios, moustache, dahling, fanwank and 11 more...
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Funny Words
Word's I just can't help but laugh at!
chuckle, myst, foreign, douchebag, zany, funky, ridiculous, foolish, shrubbery, bulb, automagically, nuance and 13 more...
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michaelnewman's Words
shenanigans, affordances, machinima, bedraggled, fancy-pants, meme, felliniesque, planimetric, macerate, whip pan, videoblog, deposition and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wack.

ipodrulz That's outta wack! May 2, 2009