Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to whack
Participle: whacked
Gerund: whacking
Indicative
Present
| I | whack |
| you | whack |
| he;she;it | whacks |
| we | whack |
| you | whack |
| they | whack |
Perfect
| I | have whacked |
| you | have whacked |
| he;she;it | has whacked |
| we | have whacked |
| you | have whacked |
| they | have whacked |
Past
| I | whacked |
| you | whacked |
| he;she;it | whacked |
| we | whacked |
| you | whacked |
| they | whacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had whacked |
| you | had whacked |
| he;she;it | had whacked |
| we | had whacked |
| you | had whacked |
| they | had whacked |
Future
| I | will whack |
| you | will whack |
| he;she;it | will whack |
| we | will whack |
| you | will whack |
| they | will whack |
Future Perfect
| I | will have whacked |
| you | will have whacked |
| he;she;it | will have whacked |
| we | will have whacked |
| you | will have whacked |
| they | will have whacked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | whack |
| you | whack |
| he;she;it | whack |
| we | whack |
| you | whack |
| they | whack |
Perfect
| I | have whacked |
| you | have whacked |
| he;she;it | have whacked |
| we | have whacked |
| you | have whacked |
| they | have whacked |
Imperfect
| I | whacked |
| you | whacked |
| he;she;it | whacked |
| we | whacked |
| you | whacked |
| they | whacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had whacked |
| you | had whacked |
| he;she;it | had whacked |
| we | had whacked |
| you | had whacked |
| they | had whacked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would whack |
| you | would whack |
| he;she;it | would whack |
| we | would whack |
| you | would whack |
| they | would whack |
Perfect
| I | would have whacked |
| you | would have whacked |
| he;she;it | would have whacked |
| we | would have whacked |
| you | would have whacked |
| they | would have whacked |
Imperative
| you | whack |
| we | Let's whack |
| you | whack |
Verbs conjugated like 'whack'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'whack'
chack,
hack,
shack,
thack,
whank,
wrack,
back,
bewhack,
black,
cack,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to administer a physical blow
- bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt, dab, dash, dowse, fetch one a blow, flap, give toco, hammer, hit, kick, knock, lunge, pat, patter, pelt, pink, poke, pound, pummel, punch, rap, slam, slap, strike, swap, tap, thrash, thump, thwack, whip, yerk
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to strike sharply," 1719, probably of imitative origin. The noun is from 1737. The word in
out of whack (1885) is perhaps the slang meaning "share, just portion" (1785), which may be from the notion of the blow that divides, or the rap of the auctioneer's hammer.
2. Uncertain. Originally Scottish; probably onomatopoeic, but compare Middle English thakken, from Old English þaccian (whence Modern thwack by conflation with whack). Sense 6 of the verb is likely a semantic loan from Malay hentam (“to strike; to do something carelessly”). See: Middle English '
thakken', Old English '
þaccian'.
Sample Sentences
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The bat whacked the baseball.
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Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades. [1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198:]
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G. W. Cable
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Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
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Niko Bellic: So you want me to talk to him? / Jimmy Pegorino: I want you to whack him! And after that I want you to kill all the other rats I surround myself with... [2008 April 29, Rockstar, Grand Theft Auto 4, Take-Two Interactive, level/area: Flatline:]
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Ken Barrett, a loyalist gunman who eventually confessed to killing Mr. Finucane on orders from the paramilitary Ulster Defense Association, told a BBC investigative reporter, John Ware, that when he’d expressed reluctance about “whacking” a solicitor[…] [2023 August 30, Megan K. Stack, Rob Stothard, “He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the Hit.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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to whack the spoils of a robbery
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When the sewer-hunters consider they have searched long enough […] the gang […] count out the money they have picked up, and proceed to dispose of the old metal, bones, rope, &c.; this done, they then, as they term it, “whack” the whole lot; that is, they divide it equally among all hands. [1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, London: G. Newbold, page 152:]
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The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series. [2012, Ryan Pyette, Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press]
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Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it! [2012, Steve Cullen, Total Flyfisher:]
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Miss Loi always tells her students not to anyhow whack, stay calm and know thy approach before attempting each question. [2007 September 17, “Composite Functions – Anyhow Whack Time!”, in exampaper.com.sg:]