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  • noun Alternative spelling of whack-a-mole.

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Examples

  • I was not aware that netflix awarded prizes, nor that they had anything to do with either the drink or action of pop …. or whac-a-mole.

    There’s another one! Smash it! 2009

  • In Lunaville, you can play whac-a-mole and win a cute stuffed dog.

    An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011

  • In Lunaville, you can play whac-a-mole and win a cute stuffed dog.

    An Amusement Peak Anne Kadet 2011

  • Care to take a shot at thoughtfully answering a question or are you just playing through with right wing whac-a-mole?

    Sound Politics: What It Means 2006

  • General Petraeus's approach now is, you go ahead and whac-a-mole, and when you go in and clean out the area, you leave Iraqi security forces with American forces there, Marines or Army, until they have control of the area.

    CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2007 2007

  • BOND: The whac-a-mole approach that we took previously, I think turned out to be the wrong approach.

    CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2007 2007

  • That game of whac-a-mole, he said, is "part of an ongoing, inarticulate conversation about how these things are going to work."

    Ars Technica Timothy B. Lee 2011

  • Never-ending European debt crisis European leaders say they have solutions to the sovereign-debt crisis, but their lack of decisive action is leading to one giant game of whac-a-mole, MarketWatch columnist Brett Arends says.

    MarketWatch.com - Top Stories 2011

  • "It's this constant game of whac-a-mole," he said.

    Ars Technica Timothy B. Lee 2011

  • A decade into the entertainment industry's massive game of whac-a-mole when it comes to file sharing sites, you would think that people would realize that blocking or banning any particular site doesn't do a damn thing to slow the pace of file sharing around the globe.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Tim Stevens 2010

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