adj · noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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CMU ARPABET:W AE1 K IH0 NG
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 2:HH W AE1 K IH0 NG
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
adj
Meaning 1
Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, not-comparable
Examples
1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289, [...] all our grannies tell us how He kill’d a whacking great dun cow;
1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80, [...] these two whacking Irish boys, that I was telling you of just now, are posted at the hall door to seize the villain, and take him to pay his respects to the next sitting magistrate [...]
Meaning relationships
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2
noun
Meaning 2
A beating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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3
noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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4
verb
Meaning 4
present participle and gerund of whack
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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5
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
(British informal) enormous
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
a whacking phone bill
a whacking lie
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6
adverb
Meaning 6
extremely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
a whacking good story
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7
noun
Meaning 7
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
