"whacking" meaning in English

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          "text": "1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289,\n[…] all our grannies tell us how\nHe kill’d a whacking great dun cow;"
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          "text": "1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80,\n[…] 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 […]"
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          "ref": "1895, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “The Roll-Call of the Reef”, in Wandering Heath: Stories, Studies, and Sketches, London: Cassell & Co., published 1896, page 13",
          "text": "[…] beside them clung a trumpeter, a whacking big man, an’ between the heavy seas he would lift his trumpet with one hand, and blow a call; and every time he blew the men gave a cheer.",
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          "ref": "1903, F. Marion Crawford, Man Overboard!, New York: Macmillan, pages 81–82",
          "text": "He was what they call a Hard-shell Baptist in those parts, with a long, shaven upper lip and a whacking appetite, and a sort of superior look, as if he didn't expect to see many of us hereafter […]",
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          "ref": "1926, Neville Shute, chapter 5, in Marazan, London: Cassell & Co.",
          "text": "There was no secret in Genoa about the destination of the little tramp with the peculiar equipment of lifeboats and davits—two whacking great motor boats each as big as a Navy pinnace, each with a couple of hundred horse-power in her.",
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          "ref": "1932, Delta Sigma Delta-Desmos, volume 38, page 151",
          "text": "If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights.",
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          "ref": "2004 February 27, Peter Bradshaw, “House of Sand and Fog”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "He seizes on an opportunity to buy a house at a repo-auction, planning to sell it on for a whacking profit.",
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