whacking

Pluralwhackings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of whack. Use this form for hitting something hard right now.

   He kept whacking the ball against the garage door for hours.

   Whacking the piñata took three tries before it finally split open.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A hard beating given by hitting someone over and over.

   The boy got a whacking for breaking the kitchen window.

   After the prank, he feared a good whacking from his father.

   Similarbeating, thrashing, hiding, drubbing, hammering

3. 3
   adjectivecolloquial

   Very big: much larger than you would expect.

   Like a slice of cake so big it barely fits on the plate.

   He told a whacking great lie about where he had been all night.

   They paid a whacking big fine for parking in the wrong spot.

   Similarwhopping, huge, enormous, thumping, massive

   Oppositetiny, small

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   Another way to spell waacking, a fast arm-swinging dance style.

   She practiced whacking every weekend at the dance studio downtown.

   The crew performed whacking to a fast disco beat under the lights.

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