whack
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Whack \Whack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Whacked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Whacking}.] [Cf. {Thwack}.]
1. To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to;
to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow
brakes. --G. W. Cable.
[1913 Webster]
2. To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a
robbery; -- often with up. [Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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 (8 July 2008)
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}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
129 Moby Thesaurus words for "whack":
approach, assay, attempt, bang, bash, bat, beating, belt, bid,
biff, blow, bonk, bout, box, box the ears, buffet, bump, burst,
bust, catch, chance, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clout,
clump, coldcock, crack, crash, crump, cuff, cut, dash, deal,
deal a blow, deck, dig, ding, dint, drub, drubbing, drumming,
effort, endeavor, essay, experiment, fetch, fetch a blow, flap,
fling, flop, fusillade, gambit, go, hit, hit a clip, inning,
innings, jab, knock, knock cold, knock down, knock out,
let have it, lick, move, offer, opportunity, paste, pelt, place,
plunk, poke, pop, pound, punch, rap, relief, report, round, say,
shot, slam, slap, slap the face, slat, slog, slug, smack, smash,
smite, snap, soak, sock, spell, splat, stab, stagger, step, strike,
strike at, stroke, strong bid, swap, swat, swing, swipe, tap,
tattoo, tentative, thump, thwack, time, time at bat,
token punishment, trial, trial and error, try, turn, undertaking,
wallop, wham, whap, whirl, whomp, whop, yerk
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