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• n  the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
• v  hit hard
• s  (British informal) enormous
  a whacking phone bill
  a whacking lie
• r  extremely
  a whacking good story

• Three modern masters of whacking, George Abbott (who staged this season's side-splitting Boy Meets Girl) and Rodgers Hart (who supplied Jumbo's score) have done so with authority.
• John Irving said that fiction was the business of inventing wonderful people and then whacking them with the worst fate you can dream up.
• On the other side, whacking them back with a persistence that amazed sophisticates in the crowd who knew that only two years ago he was one of the late Texas Guinan's tap-dancers .

• beating
• thrashing
• licking
• drubbing
• lacing
• trouncing
• whack
• wham
• whop
• wallop

News & Articles

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• Woman, 75, uses phone to fight home invaders
  NEW YORK, June 11 (UPI) -- Family members said a 75-year-old New York woman fought off a pair of attempted home invaders by whacking them with her house phone.
  June 11, 2013 - UPI
• Osborne: Privatization Program for TSB (Lloyds Group)
  Privatization is back on the political stroke economic agenda this morning after a report commissioned by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in the UK looks like he will be set to return bailed out banks to the private sector. Lloyds Bank Group got a whacking £46 billion to shore up its dire financial situation in the wake of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. The proviso at that ...
  June 10, 2013 - Zero Hedge
• Have the Hawks wised up for Game 4?
  Steve Rosenbloom: The worst part of the Blackhawks' Game 3 performance arguably was Duncan Keith's whacking Jeff Carter in the face with his stick, a selfish and undisciplined move.        
  June 6, 2013 - Chicago Tribune

Quotes

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• Daniel Day-Lewis in International Herald Tribune
  My deepest thanks to the academy for whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town,Day-Lewis said.
• Willie Randolph in NJ.com (blog)
  I thought he was talking about whacking a couple of my coaches,Randolph said.
• Terry Francona in USA Today
  You go in cycles where it seems like scoring runs is very difficult,Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "You go through times when it seems like you're whacking it all over the ballpark. We'll straighten it up and we'll put a bunch up."