See whack on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter 2, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1 (The Wild), page 16:",
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"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, New York: Appleton, page 108:",
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"ref": "1951, Katherine Mansfield, Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922:",
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"ref": "2014, Anthony Pritchard, Grand Prix Ferrari, page 203:",
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to hit, slap or strike",
"word": "colpire"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to hit, slap or strike",
"word": "drefse"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "udarjátʹ",
"sense": "to hit, slap or strike",
"word": "ударя́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to hit, slap or strike",
"word": "golpear"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to hit, slap or strike",
"word": "slå"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "qatala",
"sense": "to kill",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "قَتَلَ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ubivam",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "убивам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "幹掉"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gàndiào",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "干掉"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "afmaken"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "tappaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "buter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "töten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "ermorden"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "kverke"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "knerte"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "ekspedere"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "delja na časti",
"sense": "to share or parcel out",
"word": "деля на части"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to share or parcel out",
"word": "jakaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to share or parcel out",
"word": "verteilen"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "delítʹ",
"sense": "to share or parcel out",
"word": "дели́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razdeljátʹ",
"sense": "to share or parcel out",
"word": "разделя́ть"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prevǎzhoždam",
"sense": "to surpass or better",
"word": "превъзхождам"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to surpass or better",
"word": "übertrumpfen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to surpass or better",
"word": "übertreffen"
}
],
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"whack"
],
"word": "whack"
}
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"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
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"Terms with Mandarin translations",
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"2": "thakken"
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"expansion": "Middle English thakken",
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"2": "þaccian"
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"expansion": "Old English þaccian",
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"2": "ms",
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"t": "to strike; to do something carelessly"
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"form": "whacker",
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"form": "whackest",
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"word": "wack"
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"text": "That's whack, yo!",
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"ref": "2007, Joyce E. Davis, Can't Stop The Shine, page 51:",
"text": "As they joked about the big butts on female celebrities and what rappers had the whackest lyrics, Malcolm paid little attention to Kalia besides squeezing her hand or grabbing her arm to hold himself up […]",
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"ipa": "/wæk/"
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"ipa": "/ʍæk/",
"note": "without the wine–whine merger"
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