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whack

/wæk/
adjective

  1. Egregious.

  2. Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange.

    "Every record they ever made was straight-up wack."

  3. Crazy, mad, insane.

noun

  1. The sound of a heavy strike.

  2. The strike itself.

  3. The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.

verb

  1. To hit, slap or strike.

  2. To kill, bump off.

  3. To share or parcel out; often with up.

    "to whack the spoils of a robbery"

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