Synonyms for whack
ʰwæk, wækwhack

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1. whacknoun

   the sound made by a sharp swift blow

   Synonyms:
   whang, knock, rap, belt

2. knock, belt, rap, whack, whangverb

   the act of hitting vigorously

   "he gave the table a whack"

   Synonyms:
   bang, strike, swath, roast, rap, tap, belt, knock, belted ammunition, pat, belt ammunition, blame, whang, rap music, knocking, bash, hip-hop, smash

3. whack, wham, whop, wallopverb

   hit hard

   "The teacher whacked the boy"

   Synonyms:
   wallop, whap, sock, bonk, bash, bop, whop, wham

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1. whackverb

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] strike, beat, thrash, THWACK

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1. List of paraphrases for "whack":

   kill

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How to use whack in a sentence?

1. Jeb Bush:

   Barbara Bush is behind me—the looming figure that all children have—and she's about ready to whack me across the head if I try to be something I'm not.

2. Applied Intuition:

   It's a bit like a whack-a-mole. You solve one problem, another might emerge.

3. Aaron Muderick:

   It doesn't work as well as I would expect, while the whack-a-mole game has gotten a little bit better, it still exists every single day.

4. Andy Slavitt:

   We have to remember the fact that in the next two to six weeks, the variants that we've seen in Michigan -- those variants are also present in other states, so our ability to vaccinate people quickly in each of those states, rather than taking vaccines and shifting it to playing whack-a-mole, isn't the strategy that public health leaders and scientists have laid out.

5. Brian Flannery:

   It was literally whack-a-mole. You would get the okay to spend cash when there was an incident. A reactive security program in that kind of environment is not what you're looking for.