8 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whack \Whack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whacked}; p. pr & vb n.
{Whacking}.] [Cf. {Thwack}.]
To strike; to beat to give a heavy or resounding blow to to
thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.]
Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes.
--G. W. Cable.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whack \Whack\, v. i.
To strike anything with a smart blow.
{To whack away}, to continue striking heavy blows; as to
whack away at a log [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whack \Whack\, n.
A smart resounding blow. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whack \Whack\, v. t.
To divide into shares; as to whack the spoils of a robbery;
-- often with up [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whack \Whack\, n.
A portion; share; allowance. [Slang]
{Out of whack}, out of order [Slang]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
whack
n : the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"
[syn: {knock}, {belt}, {rap}, {whang}]
v : hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: {wham}, {whop},
{wallop}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
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 {glark}ing 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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
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 {glark}ing 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}]
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