(v. t.) To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump.
(v. t.) To fill to overflow.
(n.) A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump.
Example Sentences:
(1) He thwacks his machete into a stump to free his hands and reaches over a stone wall, groping for something in the vegetation beneath.
(2) Mancienne strode into midfield and knocked t he ball to Milner, who took it forward and thwacked a fine effort inches over the bar.
(3) The air reverberates with the thwacking sound of a pile driver.
(4) For discontented voters, especially those who feel that globalisation has done nothing for them and those unpersuaded that Brexit would inflict a material cost on their families, the referendum could be a stick with which to give a satisfying thwack to the backsides of the “political elite”.
(5) One woman fights hard, still screaming, occasionally breaking free, running a few paces, only to be brought down again with a brutal thwack.
(6) Granted, there was a considerable amount of luck attached to what happened next when Antonio Valencia’s off-target shot skimmed off Gibbs, still on the floor, to find the net but the thwack between goalkeeper and left-back was just another indication of the chaos that frequently undermines Arsenal’s defence.
(7) The sound of suffering humanity, the scream of a million English roses flailed against the landscape of depression – or a few dozen gladioli thwacked against Morrissey's handsome thigh.
(8) The momentum kept building with every tackle from the steel in midfield, in the shape of Karl Henry and the returning Sandro, with every heartfelt run from Bobby Zamora, every thwacked shot unleashed by Charlie Austin.
(9) • Take a wooden spoon and thwack each half over a bowl until all the seeds have come out.
(10) What most people crave is not the firm thwack of May’s leadership, but a certainty about the future that currently seems beyond their reach.
(11) A merican biologist Kelly Swing thwacks a bush with his butterfly net and a dozen or so bugs and insects drop in.
(12) Even the cliches – which are plentiful – are accompanied by the suspicion that there's something going on beneath the clunkiness, something Profound and Awful that will rear up from the depths and thwack us in the preconceptions.
(13) 2.08pm BST 34th over: Sri Lanka 100-2 (Jayawardene 17, Sangakkara 27) To the soundtrack of groups of children attempting (unsuccessfully) to start Mexican waves (Five, four, three, two, one, WAAAAAHEYYY … [silence] … Five, four, three, two, one, WAAAAAHEYYY … [silence] … Five") it's Plunkett's turn to get thwacked to the boundary – a wide one gets the full treatment from Sangakkara.
(14) 3.33pm BST 33 mins: Quite so... Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) @NickMiller79 If you're being torn apart by Shola Ameobi, it's a pretty good indication of what needs to be at the top of your shopping list May 11, 2014 3.32pm BST 32 mins: Suarez has a free kick from about 25 yards out, but he thwacks it straight into the wall.
(15) 10.03am GMT 75min: Duarte is thwacked by Duarte and wins a free-kick in the left-hand side of the area.
(16) Golfers thwack balls towards the huge nets of Chelsea Piers.
(17) Now, as I thwack on the TV to buy myself half an hour, or distract the kid while I cut her toenails, I can’t help feeling a sort of internal tug, as though some vital societal fabric is being unravelled because there are images moving across a screen in the living room before lunch.
(18) It's like a real-life cartoon, with all the sound effects – thump, thwack, bang, crash, eek, splat – as they roll, bite each other and tumble slowly off their bamboo platform on to the grass.
(19) While the opposition leader was thwacking on the lycra before sunup, the prime minister had instead fallen into the habit of “comfort eating”.
Whack
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.
(v. i.) To strike anything with a smart blow.
(n.) A smart resounding blow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, a huge whack of his income comes from Rupert Murdoch.
(2) The cold, hard political calculation is that it makes more sense for the coalition to hit the poorest and weakest – by making swingeing cuts to welfare – than to whack the middle class or the powerful.
(3) If you are on the back end you are kind of playing whack-a-mole, trying to pick this up,” one source said.
(4) Consequently, after Hartson fed Jason Koumas on the right in the first minute and the ball was cleared to Savage on the edge of the Russian box, Savage whacked at the bouncing ball excitedly.
(5) There is a difference between grabbing a bedside lamp and whacking an intruder because you are worried about the children and hitting someone and then stabbing them 17 times," one source said.
(6) "The NSA has a slogan internally — 'we track 'em, you whack 'em' – where they help to target drone strikes."
(7) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(8) It was the happiest Luke Shaw had ever been to take a whack from one of his team-mates.
(9) Nor are they exotic Mafia hits like the killing of Castellano; these are low-level whackings, often linked to squabbles over drugs.
(10) Compare that with a sale price (including downloads) of $630 and Apple makes $452 on each phone: a whacking gross margin of 72%.
(11) But not past the always reliable Cole, who whacks it out for a corner.
(12) Fletcher had the image within a week, and the first thing he noticed was something that had been speculated to exist – “this whacking great canal coming down from the north”.
(13) The huge signs advertising a collapse in prices are already stacked in department stores’ stockrooms as the final spasm of Christmas Eve top-whack spending is taking place.
(14) He whacks the shields of policemen who earn less in a year than a banker does in a day.
(15) Historically, sadly, we never had a cost-control culture, they were out of whack.” Flybe has signed a five-year deal at City.
(16) Whacking the bankers directly and visibly – ensuring they pay back what they cost the rest of us – might have struck the right populist chord too.
(17) I remember an interview where he says he took great delight in whacking the opposing players whenever he had the chance."
(18) But ultimately, it’s human emissions that have thrown a pretty finely-tuned system out of whack.
(19) Instead, Ignatieff got whacked, and the left-leaning New Democratic party did very well indeed, astonishing even themselves.
(20) 9.11pm BST 67 min: Isco has a whack at the Atlético goal through a thicket of legs from the right-hand side of the D, but drags his effort well wide left.