whacked

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of whack.

   The batter whacked the ball into the upper stands.

   Grandpa whacked the dusty rug until it was clean.

   Note

   Regular in every respect: one -ed spelling covers the past tense (she whacked it) and the participle after have or be (it has been whacked). The participle carries the verb's slang meanings too. Someone who was whacked may have been killed rather than merely hit, and loot is whacked up when it is shared out. The same spelling also serves the "worn out" adjective.

2. 2
   adjectivecolloquialUS

   Worn out and lacking energy; thoroughly tired.

   Like a wrung-out sponge with nothing left to give.

   She came home whacked after a long day at the warehouse.

   Two back-to-back meetings left him utterly whacked.

   Similarexhausted, tired, weary, drained, spent

   Oppositerested, energetic

   Note

   American and casual, this is tiredness after the all-night party: we were all whacked. It usually follows be or feel rather than standing before a noun, and it compares with more and most (the most whacked of us all). Exhausted and weary say much the same in any register. Whacked belongs to easy talk among friends and reads oddly in formal writing.

3. 3
   adjectiveslang

   Intoxicated from drug use; under the influence of drugs.

   By midnight half the crowd was whacked on whatever was going around.

   He turned up whacked, pupils wide and speech badly slurred.

   Similarhigh, stoned, wasted, baked, blitzed

   Oppositesober, straight

   Note

   Drug slang that names the substance with on: someone gets whacked on speed in Boris Mihailovic's At the Altar of the Road Gods (2014). Like blazed and zooted, it belongs to casual and often coarse talk, so keep it out of formal writing. The construction tells it apart from the "worn out" meaning: whacked on something means drugged, while plain whacked after a long day means tired.

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