whack

Principal Translations
Inglés		Español
whack [sth], whack [sb]⇒ vtr	(hit)	golpear⇒ vtr
		pegar⇒ vtr
	The carpenter whacked the nail with the hammer.
	El carpintero golpeó el clavo con el martillo.
whack n	(hit, blow)	golpe nm
		trancazo nm
	Rachel's whack stopped the picture on the old TV flickering.
	El golpe de Rachel hizo que la imagen en la televisión vieja dejara de parpadear.

Additional Translations
Inglés		Español
whack n	(sound of hit)	zas onomat
		plas onomat
	Martin heard the whack of the cricket ball hitting the bat.
	Martin oyó el zas que hizo la pelota de cricket al golpear el bate.
whack [sth] off vtr + adv	(remove with blow)	arrancar⇒ vtr
		soplar⇒ vtr
	The man whacked off a chunk of the rock with a sledgehammer.
	El hombre arrancó un trozo de roca con un golpe de mazo.

Compound Forms:
Inglés		Español
have a whack, have a whack at [sth] v expr	colloquial (make an attempt)	hacer el intento loc verb
		prueba nf
	The photocopier was broken, so Linda decided to have a whack at fixing it. "Do you know how to do this?" - "No, but I'll have a whack."
out of whack adj	(not working properly, unbalanced) (sincronía)	desfasado/a adj
		desastroso/a adj
	The soundtrack on this film is out of whack. You hear the dialogue two seconds after the actor's lips start moving.
whack job n	slang, pejorative (insane person) (despectivo)	tarado, tarada nm, nf
	That guy over there is a whack job.
whack-a-mole n	US (arcade game)	aplasta al topo loc nom m
		golpee al mole loc nom m
whack-a-mole n	US (futile effort to solve problems)	juego inútil nm + adj mf
	The government sets up a firewall, and hackers find a way around it; it's a game of whack-a-mole.

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Spanish:

Collocations: heard a loud whack, gave her a whack [across the face, in the stomach], gave the [table, ball, coconut] a whack, more...

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