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Whacking

Whacking \Whack"ing\, a. Very large; whapping. [Colloq.]

Whacking

Whack \Whack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Whacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Whacking.] [Cf. Thwack.]

  1. To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.]

    Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes.
    --G. W. Cable.

  2. To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a robbery; -- often with up. [Slang]

Wiktionary
whacking
  1. (context informal English) Exceptionally large; whopping. n. A beating. v

  2. (present participle of whack English)

WordNet
whacking
  1. adj. (British informal) enormous; "a whacking phone bill"; "a whacking lie"

  2. n. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing]

  3. adv. extremely; "a whacking good story"

Usage examples of "whacking".

As he dances by, feebly whacking the drum, Berel hears Mutterperl hiss.

If you say too loud to me or Cookey, you will wake that Smallest, and there will be Proper Whackings.

Later, word came from Mitch that a couple of the kids, Stu among them, had been seen whacking the tar out of spaldeens at Dietetic Crescent.

He had a score to settle with Josiah Wilby, a boy whose talebearing had procured him his last, well-earned whacking.

At least daily, Proxenus would startle Aedon out of his frequent reveries in the courtyard by whacking him on the head with his makeshift wooden sword, sending him into a chase that would end with the boys racing through the house, wrestling on the hard tile floors and getting underfoot of the long-suffering elderly servants who attempted to maintain order.

It made a superbly satisfying whacking sound when it came into contact with a tautly stretched feminine posterior, whether over drawers or on bare twitching skin, and since he was a voluptuary whose senses were vividly attuned, the characteristic noise it made was capable of stimulating his erotic nature to its highest pitch, as Alice and Maude quickly determined.

The first student to lay a hand on him was a Nordic-looking man with a stringy beard, and Ritsu stepped in close to the man and head butted him, their skulls whacking together with a sound like wood cracking.

If you say too loud to me or Cookey, you will wake that Smallest, and there will be Proper Whackings.

Occasionally, sound from the gym could be heard echoing, kids yelling, the ball whacking against the wall, all of it garbled through the peculiar acoustics of the gym.

Incidentally, the arrhythmic meaty whacking sound is Booger hitting himself in the thigh and chest in there, which self-abuse is a textbook symptom of an anxiously depressed episode.

I told him then that this nuisance must now cease, and after that he cheesed it, and practically passed out of my life, till one afternoon when I got back to the flat to dress for dinner and found Jeeves inspecting a whacking big poster sort of thing which he had draped over the back of an armchair.

Unless the squirrel was fantasizing about whacking couples for years, then finally got around to it.

He has the power to decide whether to injure or "Too bad Spurrier don't just fantasize about whacking couples," Marino said.

They passed the whacking printingpress, hidden from sight in a culdesac of towering bundles of newsprint.

Caruso said, whacking Jason across the shoulder blades and squeezing his deltoids, which were the size of cantaloupes.