whack

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Before I knew what was happening, she had me over her knee and was paddling my bottom with her open hand, hard I don't" -- whack -- "know what_" -- whack -- "you think" -- whack -- "you're doing, James whack -- "If your father_" -- whack, whack -- "were here whack -- "he'd switch you" -- whack -- "within an inch of your life."

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  1. transitive verb To strike (someone or something) with a sharp blow; slap.
  2. transitive verb Slang To kill deliberately; murder.
  3. intransitive verb To deal a sharp, resounding blow.
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  • Then he sprang the locks on the pin-wheeling limb restraints -- whack, whack, whack, whack. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 02 - February 1994
  • He said his arm slot is out of whack, which is a big reason why he wasn't able to locate his pitches Friday. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Our fundamental problem is still that the banking sector has their balance sheets all out of whack, and the Obama Adminsitration still has no apparent plan for clearing up bank balance sheets via recapitalization, or … well … anything else. —  QandO
  • The fundamental problem is that our entire system of post-secondary education is out of whack, and fixing it would require significant, politically unpopular reform. —  Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee
  • I thought that this was somehow out of whack, and that gradually things would change. —  Planet Geospatial
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

thwack ·  slap ·  thunk ·  yank ·  thump ·  shove ·  cannonade ·  fillip ·  swipe ·  clap ·  swat ·  splat

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whack:   whacked ·  whacking
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably imitative.

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  1. A variant of thack, apparently suggested by whop, whop, whip, etc., the form thwack being intermediate between thack and whack.
  2. from whack, v.
 

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