Definitions for whack-a-mole
whack-a-mole

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1. whack-a-molenoun

   The practice of trying to stop something that persistently occurs in an apparently random manner at the point where the occurrence is noticed, such as terminating spammers' e-mail accounts or closing pop-up advertisement windows.

   It's like whack-a-mole: as soon as you fix one, another appears.

2. Etymology: From the arcade game Whac-A-Mole, which involves quickly and repeatedly hitting the heads of mechanical moles with a mallet as they pop up from holes.

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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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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. Judy Rogg:

   It’s kind of Whack-a-Mole, if you take one down, 15 more are going to go up.

2. President Barack Obama:

   The strong consensus is that in order for us to succeed long-term in this fight against (ISIS), we have to develop local security forces that can sustain progress. It is not enough for us to simply send in American troops to temporarily set back organizations like (ISIS), but then as soon as we leave see that void filled again by extremists, 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.

3. Trillium Asset Management:

   The sheer volume, magnitude, and frequency of Facebook's controversies strongly suggests that the company's whack-a-mole approach is insufficient - Facebook needs to institutionalize stronger risk oversight mechanisms.

4. Justin Sherman:

   The Trump administration has taken almost like a whack-a-mole approach to dealing with these issues, because it seems that as soon as a Chinese company is in the news, all of a sudden that becomes the new target, it seems very unlikely that there is thinking going on about the longer term strategy, and much more likely that the focus instead is on this politically motivated attack on an application because it's a Chinese-owned app, even if there are real security questions.

5. Gregory Poling:

   What we've seen over and over in the last years, China is unwilling to risk activities that threaten deadly force, it is possible to deter them. We'll have to keep deterring them over and over. That is the test for next 10 to 15 years in this game of whack-a-mole until the Chinese decide that this is not the way to do international relations.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Whack-A-Mole
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whack-A-Mole