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whacked

[ wakt, hwakt ]

adjective

, Chiefly British Slang.
  1. exhausted; tired out.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of whacked1

First recorded in 1915–20; whack + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

He should, according to Mahony, prepare himself to be whacked over the head with such a thoughtless and offensive gift.

Unless said partner is ready to be whacked over their head with the box for their thoughtlessness, they have made a grave mistake.

There was that time Nancy Kerrigan was whacked in the knee by a baton-wielding assailant in 1994.

The cliffhanger on the first one was “somebody whacked the erasers.”

They were chalk marks on the floor because somebody whacked the erasers.

He whacked the sides with his tail, as if he enjoyed the game–and jumped out as soon as we turned away.

Some one with an oath whacked me over the head with a sabre, my horse stumbled in the darkness, and down I went into chaos.

Three Bottles whacked off one scaly head and at last a second one, but he was unable to touch the third.

If two or more dogs got fighting their owners simply whacked them with kerries until they desisted.

With this in his fore-paw, he ran at the oni, whacked him soundly, and stuck him all over with the sharp prickles.

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