"wicky-wack" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1985, Richard P[hillips] Feynman, edited by Edward Hutchings, \"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!\": Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, page 331:",
          "text": "He told me how you get ready to go into the tank by looking at yourself in the mirror with your nose up against it—all kinds of wicky-wack things, all kinds of gorp.",
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          "ref": "1994 August, Ricky Powell, “What's Up With That”, in VIBE, volume 2, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Time Publishing Ventures, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26:",
          "text": "Hacky Sack? Kinda wicky wack—get a real sport, like hopscotch.",
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          "ref": "2005, Lee Ziegler, Easy-Gaited Horses: Gentle, Humane Methods for Training and Riding Gaited Pleasure Horses, North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 192:",
          "text": "A horse may also exhibit trotting or walking motion in either his front or hind legs along with a cantering motion from the other pair, producing an odd half canter, half something else. […] This gait is so common in gaited horses that it has a specific name in some languages, although the closest term for it in English is \"wicky wack.\"",
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          "ref": "2006, Singles: Six Decades of Hot Hits & Classic Cuts, San Diego, C.A.: Thunder Bay Press, →ISBN, page 307:",
          "text": "'Bring Me To Life' was accompanied by a video in which Lee jumped off a building and sang the song on her way down, scoring with its combination of Lee's soaring larynx and some rapped interludes, plus the requisite big guitars and some wicky-wack scratching.",
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          "ref": "2013 October 5, Stuart Heritage, “Friends With Benefits recap: unsexy bestie sex”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-10:",
          "text": "Except it quite obviously is. If anything, the music in Friends With Benefits is worse than the music in, say, Sleepless in Seattle; either the sort of tinpot wicky-wack scratchy guff that middle-aged men with ponytails think kids listen to at parties, or soggy ukulele nonsense.",
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        "Not entirely legitimate; odd; eccentric."
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          "ref": "1985, Richard P[hillips] Feynman, edited by Edward Hutchings, \"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!\": Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, page 331:",
          "text": "He told me how you get ready to go into the tank by looking at yourself in the mirror with your nose up against it—all kinds of wicky-wack things, all kinds of gorp.",
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          "ref": "1994 August, Ricky Powell, “What's Up With That”, in VIBE, volume 2, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Time Publishing Ventures, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26:",
          "text": "Hacky Sack? Kinda wicky wack—get a real sport, like hopscotch.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005, Lee Ziegler, Easy-Gaited Horses: Gentle, Humane Methods for Training and Riding Gaited Pleasure Horses, North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 192:",
          "text": "A horse may also exhibit trotting or walking motion in either his front or hind legs along with a cantering motion from the other pair, producing an odd half canter, half something else. […] This gait is so common in gaited horses that it has a specific name in some languages, although the closest term for it in English is \"wicky wack.\"",
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          "text": "'Bring Me To Life' was accompanied by a video in which Lee jumped off a building and sang the song on her way down, scoring with its combination of Lee's soaring larynx and some rapped interludes, plus the requisite big guitars and some wicky-wack scratching.",
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          "ref": "2013 October 5, Stuart Heritage, “Friends With Benefits recap: unsexy bestie sex”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-10:",
          "text": "Except it quite obviously is. If anything, the music in Friends With Benefits is worse than the music in, say, Sleepless in Seattle; either the sort of tinpot wicky-wack scratchy guff that middle-aged men with ponytails think kids listen to at parties, or soggy ukulele nonsense.",
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        "Not entirely legitimate; odd; eccentric."
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