Whacking

Quick meaning: Whacking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of whack.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of whack.

More Meanings

1. (informal) Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
2. (countable) A beating.
3. (uncountable) Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).

Example Sentences

He seizes on an opportunity to buy a house at a repo-auction, planning to sell it on for a whacking profit.

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.

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;

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• whackings

Synonyms for whacking

Depending on context, synonyms include large, big, thrashing, drubbing, beating, trouncing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include big, large, beating, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing.

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