Definition & Meaning | English word WHACKING
WHACKING
Definitions of WHACKING
- A beating.
- inflection of whack
- (informal) Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using WHACKING in a Sentence
- After Marge takes Bart on a field trip to Olde Springfield Towne, he deduces that the origin of Whacking Day, which supposedly involved Jebediah Springfield, is false because it conflicts with a major Revolutionary War battle in which Springfield took part.
- But mostly it's a whacking big dose of amateur scholarship alloyed with a fervid imagination and the kind of narrative that comes in handy when telling ghost stories around a campfire.
- The same section's first line ends with the surprise inclusion of a blues-based riff, soon after which the C7 chord is used again in the ascent to the IV (subdominant) chord, helping to accentuate the phrase "damn good whacking".
- It was like going to work every day and a little bloke hiding behind the door with a sledgehammer and whacking you around the chin.
- In The Misfits, Marilyn Monroe is depicted provocatively whacking a paddle ball while wearing a polka-dot dress in a saloon in Dayton, Nevada.
- As to the skill criteria, the judges will evaluate the performance based on musicality, synchronization or timing, execution or controlled mobility and stabilization, difficulty of execution of authentic dance styles, and variety of dance styles, which includes, but not limited to hip hop dance, locking, popping, breaking, whacking, voguing, house dance, party dances or club dances (popular or trendy dances), krumping, stepping/gumboot dance, dancehall, and afro style.
- The prefectorial practice of 'slippering', whacking miscreants on the backside with a plimsoll shoe, would continue for two more decades.
- A parody of Newsreel filmstrips featuring stories such as the collapse of a spice factory from every employee sneezing at once, Siamese twins being compressed into one single individual, the cartoon duo of Cat and Mouse announcing their retirement, and the sensation of "whacking" (with paddleball toys) takes the world by storm.
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