What does whacking mean?

Definitions for whacking
ˈʰwæk ɪŋ, ˈwæk-whack·ing

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word whacking.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whackingadjective

    the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

  2. whackingadverb

    (British informal) enormous

    "a whacking phone bill"; "a whacking lie"

  3. whackingadverb

    extremely

    "a whacking good story"

Wiktionary

  1. whackingadjective

    Exceptionally large; whopping.

    She was hit with a whacking great fine for illegal parking.

ChatGPT

  1. whacking

    Whacking is a term broadly used to refer to the act of striking or hitting something or someone, often with considerable force. It also refers to killing or murder in some slang terminologies. Apart from these, 'whacking' may refer to the act of defeating or overcoming something. The usage of full effort or concentration, as in 'I'm whacking away at this project' is associated with this term too. It is derived from a verb, 'to whack', which means to strike or hit hard.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Whacking

    of Whack

  2. Whackingadjective

    very large; whapping

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of whacking in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of whacking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of whacking in a Sentence

  1. Scott Wedgewood:

    We did a good job bearing down and we didn’t give up on those plays off the post, our guys were still whacking the sticks around the net. But it can go either way. And that’s kind of what the hockey Gods wanted for us, I guess.

  2. Whitney Heard Henriquez:

    He comes up behind me, strikes me in the back. I hear Amber shout don't hit my f ****** sister. She smacks him, lands one, by that time Johnny had already grabbed Amber by the hair with one hand and was whacking her repeatedly in the face with the other.

  3. Porterfield:

    The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.

  4. Transportation Security Officer Carol Richel:

    Officer Slyve is my hero, she probably saved my life because he was within inches of whacking me. ... She saved a lot of people's lives. This man was swinging very hard with the machete.

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