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wack

English

Alternative forms

  • whack

Etymology

Back-formation from wacky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wæk/
  • Homophone: whack (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Adjective

wack (comparative wacker, superlative wackest)

  1. Exceptionally bad, egregious.
  2. (hip-hop slang) Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, lame, or strange.
    Every record they ever made was straight-up wack.
  3. (slang) Crazy, mad, insane.
  4. Cool, bizarre, and potentially scary.

Noun

wack (plural wacks)

  1. An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.

Synonyms

  • wackjob, wacko; see also Thesaurus:strange person

Translations

Anagrams

  • cawk

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wacke

English

Etymology

From Middle High German wacke (boulder), from Old High German waggo or wacko, yielding German Wacke, probably cognate with Old High German wegan (to move).

Noun

wacke (countable and uncountable, plural wackes)

  1. (geology) A soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.

Synonyms

  • wacky

Related terms

  • graywacke, greywacke
  • wackenitic

References

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