Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very large; huge.
- adverb Very; extremely.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Very large; lusty; whopping: as, a whacking fish or falsehood. Often used adverbially: as, a whacking big fish
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Very large; whapping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
whack . - adjective informal Exceptionally large;
whopping .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb extremely
- adjective (British informal) enormous
- noun the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
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Examples
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I enjoy miniature golf on occasion, other than that no interest in whacking my balls across hundreds of acres just to drop them in a little hole, just to pull them back out!
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Republicans, for their part, say they have no incentive to compromise on the tax cuts, citing a mandate from voters to keep taxes low and to begin whacking at a federal budget bloated by spending on what the GOP views as Obama's failed economic policies.
White House, Congress poised for battle over tax breaks in lame-duck session Lori Montgomery 2010
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Republicans, for their part, say they have no incentive to compromise on the tax cuts, citing a mandate from voters to keep taxes low and to begin whacking at a federal budget bloated by spending on what the GOP views as Obama's failed economic policies.
White House, Congress poised for battle over tax breaks in lame-duck session Lori Montgomery 2010
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I enjoy miniature golf on occasion, other than that no interest in whacking my balls across hundreds of acres just to drop them in a little hole, just to pull them back out!
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I clumsily put on my new clothes, again whacking my limbs against the walls, and opened the door.
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Then he sings, "If you're waking" -- he pronounces it "whacking" -- "call me early, mothair dear!" finishing up with a gay laugh, and a guttural ejaculation in Russian; at least, I fancy it is Russian.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 Various
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I also recall whacking to death at least one keyboard in my newspaper days.
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I also recall whacking to death at least one keyboard in my newspaper days.
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I also recall whacking to death at least one keyboard in my newspaper days.
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During two tape-recorded conversations in January, 2005, Massino got Basciano to say several times that he had floated the idea of whacking Andres a few weeks earlier when they met in prison after Basciano was added to a then-pending murder indictment against Massino.
Jerry Capeci: Slain Wiseguy Linked To Murder Plot Against Federal Prosecutor 2009
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