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whack a mole

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1. whack a mole

   Whac-A-Mole is an arcade game, originally known as Mogura Taiji (モグラ退治, "Mole Buster") or Mogura Tataki (モグラたたき, "Mole Smash") in Japan. A typical Whac-A-Mole machine consists of a waist-level cabinet with a play area and display screen, and a large, soft, black mallet. Five holes in the play area top are filled with small, plastic, cartoonish moles, which pop up at random. Points are scored by, as the name suggests, whacking each mole as it appears. The faster the reaction, the higher the score.

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1. whack a mole

   [from the carnival game which involves quickly and repeatedly hitting the heads of mechanical moles with a mallet as they pop up from their holes.] 1. The practice of repeatedly causing spammers' throwaway accounts and drop boxes to be terminated. 2. After sense 1 became established in the mid-1990s the term passed into more generalized use, and now is commonly found in such combinations as whack-a-mole windows; the obnoxious pop-up advertisement windows spawned in flocks when you surf to sites like Angelfire or Lycos.

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1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of whack a mole in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of whack a mole in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of whack a mole in a Sentence

1. President Barack Obama:

   If we try to do everything ourselves all across the Middle East, all across North Africa, we'll be playing whack-a-mole and there'll be a whole lot of unintended consequences that ultimately make us less secure.

2. 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.

3. Josh Cain:

   I know our guys are attacking the heads of (ISIS) and getting the intelligence that we need. right now we can attack ISIS all day long, but if there's not going to be a stable nation in the end, we're just playing whack-a-mole.

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. Josh Cain:

   Right now we can attack ISIS all day long, but if there's not going to be a stable nation in the end, we're just playing whack-a-mole, that's probably where some work needs to be done.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whack_A_Mole
2. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#WhackAMole