v. t. | 1. | To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. | |||
2. | To divide into shares; | ||||
v. i. | 1. | To strike anything with a smart blow.
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n. | 1. | A smart resounding blow. | |||
2. | A portion; share; allowance. | ||||
3. | an attempt;
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Noun | 1. | whack - the sound made by a sharp swift blow |
2. | whack - the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" | |
Verb | 1. | whack - hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" |
whack - According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glarking things from context. As a trivial example, it is relatively easy to change all "stderr" writes to "stdout" writes in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise mysterious. |