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. Tim Squirrell:

   The consequence of that is that you can never complete the game of whack-a-mole, there's always going to be somewhere, someone circulating a Google Drive link or a Samsung cloud link or something else that allows people to access this... Once it's out in the ether, it's impossible to take everything down.

2. Donald McGurk:

   I don't think you could ever presume it's behind you, but now we're in a position to understand what's happened, it's like playing Whack-A-Mole. They just pop up somewhere else.

3. Applied Intuition:

   It's a bit like a whack-a-mole. You solve one problem, another might emerge.

4. 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.

5. 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.

References

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