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The sound of a heavy strike. / The strike itself. / The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.

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whack

IPA(Pronunciation)

/wæk/

Noun

US slang dated obsolete

The sound of a heavy strike. / The strike itself. / The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.

Japanese Meaning

重い一撃の音 / 重い打撃そのもの / 打撃そのもの

What is this buttons?

There was a loud whack when the heavy box hit the floor.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

重い箱が床に落ちたとき、ドスンという大きな音がした。

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Sense（1）

The sound of a heavy strike.

Sense（2）

The strike itself.

Sense（3）

The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.

Sense（4）

(US, slang) An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.

C'mon. Take a whack at it.

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Sense（5）

(originally UK cant, somewhat dated) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.

I don’t care about much wine afterwards—I take my whack at dinner—I mean my share, you know; and when I have had as much as I want I toddle up to tea.

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Sense（6）

(obsolete) A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.

Sense（7）

(US, obsolete) A deal, an agreement.

"I'll stay if you will."

"Good—that's a whack."

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Sense（8）

(dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also wack).

Sense（9）

(typography, computing, slang) The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.

Delete c colon whack docs whack readme dot text.

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whacks

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