whack : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: whack	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for whack
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whack n the sound made by a sharp swift blow the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" Synonym(s): knock, belt, rap, whack, whang v hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop]
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 Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [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}]