Whacking in a sentence as a noun

Just whacking up a paywall is likely not the answer.

Ah, the wasted hours of IRQ mole whacking to make the sound card AND the cdrom drive to both work at the same time ...

I was trying to work/study and this dumb guy/girl behind me kept whacking their keyboard with an iphone.

The ride is very uncomfortable, due to a spoon tied to the seat which keeps whacking their legs.

Private contractors are whacking people like crazy over in Afghanistan for the CIA.

Whacking in a sentence as an adjective

For every evil bills that is on the public consciousness, another bill slip by. It's basically a game of whacking a mole.

The threshold for getting the big stick of the government out and whacking your competition is so low that you're presented with multiple choices: go for their domain name.

I like Scheme, but unless the project was written in a Lisp I'd seriously question the judgment of anybody whacking Scheme into a build file multiple people had to work with and understand.

The way FB implements margins is terrible, there's nothing "semantic" about it - it's basically a single level of abstraction above whacking style tags onto elements directly.

The political leaders of these countries derive significant political capital by whacking the US piata to cover up for domestic issues.

Whacking in a sentence as an adverb

", you're clearly in need of stronger education techniques than "encouraging growth through understanding" - I'm not advocating punching him in the face, but if he were a puppy I'd be whacking him on the nose with a newspaper.

After a moment of contemplation, the instructor somewhat reluctantly said "yeah, we'll take the pirate".Since he and I were now alone in the dinghy, I drew my [plastic] cutlass and started whacking him in an attempt to commander the vessel.

I quit going to hackathons when they started to turn into "do something with our web service" instead of "X straight hours of whacking away at whatever project you're working on, surrounded by like minded people doing their own thing, that you can bounce problems off of when you get stuck".There are two local hackathons coming up, neither of which I'm the slightest bit interested in, since both are based around handfuls of companies and their products' web-based APIs.

Use some imagination.- Employ soft power / carrots instead of sticks such as foreign aid and literacy education.- Take actions that make people hate you less instead of more.- Equip/arrange for the locals or neighbours to do your dirty work.- Get a UN vote saying whatever you want to do.- Arm the government, conditional on a transition to democracy over the course of ten years.- Employ targeted bombings only on terrorist training camps, not on weddings.- Convince, bribe or threaten local cultural and religious leaders to guide their followers away from whatever you want them away from.- Divide the country along race, religious or class grounds and install a minority government that serves your interests.- Place bounties on the heads of people you want killed and increase the payout until the free market takes care of things for you.- Just let them take care of their own internal political issues and wait for the terrorists to reach the US or one of its allies before whacking them.- Increase employment rates and workloads so people are too busy/tired to devote attention to trying to destroy america.- Free bread / circuses / fast food / TV.- ***** in the water supply.- Nuke the whole place as a warning to others.- Adopt a realistic foreign policy that admits the inevitability of civilian deaths, occasional bad apples engaging in torture and executing prisoners etc. and just agree to monitor and set realistic targets regarding the number of civilian deaths etc.- Do something low impact and ineffective and let the next president deal with it.

Whacking definitions

noun

the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

See also: beating thrashing licking drubbing lacing trouncing

adjective

(British informal) enormous; "a whacking phone bill"; "a whacking lie"

adverb

extremely; "a whacking good story"