Whacking

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

present participle and gerund of whack.

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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;

1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80, […] 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 […]

[…] 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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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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