whacking

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈhwækɪŋ/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(hwak′ing, wak′-)

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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2026:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
whacking adj mainly UK, slang (very big)enorme adj mf
  gigante adj mf
whacking adv mainly UK, slang (extremely)extremadamente adv
  totalmente adv
 Clothes moths had left a whacking great hole in the woollen blanket.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2026:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
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.
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Additional Translations
InglésEspañol
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.
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Locuciones verbales
whack | whacking
InglésEspañol
whack off vi phrasal vulgar, informal (masturbate)pajearse⇒ v prnl
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Compound Forms:
whack | whacking
InglésEspañol
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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'whacking' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
Spanish:
golpiza


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