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whack |
8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whack \Whack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whacked}; p. pr & vb n. {Whacking}.] [Cf. {Thwack}.] To strike; to beat to give a heavy or resounding blow to to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.] Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes. --G. W. Cable. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whack \Whack\, v. i. To strike anything with a smart blow. {To whack away}, to continue striking heavy blows; as to whack away at a log [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whack \Whack\, n. A smart resounding blow. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whack \Whack\, v. t. To divide into shares; as to whack the spoils of a robbery; -- often with up [Slang] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Whack \Whack\, n. A portion; share; allowance. [Slang] {Out of whack}, out of order [Slang] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: whack n : the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: {knock}, {belt}, {rap}, {whang}] v : hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: {wham}, {whop}, {wallop}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: whack v. According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of {NeWS}, {GOSMACS} and Java), 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 {glark}ing 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. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: 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 {glark}ing 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. [{Jargon File}]
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