wack
1[wak]Slang.
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- very bad: All drugs are bad, but crack is wack.
- extreme; far-out.
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Origin of wack
1First recorded in 1935–40; perhaps back formation from wacky
wack
2[wak]
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figure, personality, case, customer, oddball, freak, oddity, eccentric, nut, queer, personage, clown, weirdo, spook, crank, original, card, duck, zombie, wackExamples from the Web for wack
Contemporary Examples of wack
And he can go from talking to his Wack Pack to talking to Julia Roberts.
Thankfully, the “mother of the Wack Packers” lived up to her reputation.
One of his most famous was the New York billboard he painted with the slogan “Crack is Wack.”
Historical Examples of wack
I throw out the dirt: (M) wapattikosch; (R) wacktóhsch (wack short).
We made our way to the store of Wack Stillman, a favourite rendezvous for the loafers and off-works.
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wack
wacker (ˈwækə)
- Liverpool and Midland English dialect friend; pal: used chiefly as a term of address
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Word Origin for wack
perhaps from dialect wack or whack to share out, hence one who shares, a friend
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Word Origin and History for wack
"crazy person," 1938, back-formation from wacky. Adjective in slang sense of "worthless, stupid," is attested from late 1990s.
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