whack up

Definitions

1. 1

   To divide into shares

   To divide into shares; divvy.

   • We'll whack up fair with you, Hitchcock. In everything you'll get your quarter-share, neither more nor less; and you can take it or leave it.
   • Whack up whatever we have in the larder, and eat that.
   • American dealer breaks up, whacks up, packages, and sells kilo piecemeal for $35,000
2. 2

   To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty

   To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty; to cough up; to shell out.

   • A woman does not doubt her husband's work, of course, when manufactures, like home made candy, leaving hubby to pay for the raw materials; or else to take a lodger into the flat for which the same hubby whacks up $37.50 every month.
   • He is approached by some person who tells him that he knows of a homestead that is open, but, of course, it will take a little to secure it: if the intending settler is ready to whack up $1 or $2 an acre, the place can be secured.
   • I said in th' letter that'd I'd whack up half.
3. 3

   To cut up or chop up.

   • I have whacked up some wood, and I'm sure of this fact, that it pays to be good.
   • Let's ply the saw and speed her, and whack up elm and cedar, and thus, O gentle reader, our well-known bulwarks guard.
   • "He looks pretty bad," Stan said. "He was cut up by the rotors of an outboard motor and is whacked up all over."
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   1. 4

      To strike someone or something repeatedly or very forcefully.

      • The long check-rein whacked up the leader, and sent the whole team on a brisk trot down the winding grade to the music of a black-snake whip, its sharp notes resounding among the hills and vales of the "blue-grass land."
      • They got whacked up in the air a bit, and after that Humphries decided he needed a Rule 43 protection in the block —isolation from other prisoners.
   2. 5

      To control or dominate someone or something in a thorough or severe manner.

      • District 50 is trying to whack up the AFL- CIO, " said Carlough, "why doesn't the AFL - CIO go out and whack up District 50?"
   3. 6

      To create or produce in a sudden or haphazard manner.

      • And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos.
      • Or perhaps you'd like a row of outlets over a workbench. Another guard whacks up metal raceway in minutes.
      • After I'd washed up I put on a pot of coffee and whacked up a big batch of biscuits.
   4. 7

      To gather together

      To gather together; to accumulate or come up with.

      • The men was all to the Banks, and Counahan he whacked up an iverlastin' hard crowd fer crew.
      • Worships the ground you tread on but can't whack up the ginger to tell you so.
      • When the chaps who are in are all out, the other team goes in for their whack and if they can whack up more runs before they're out than the other chaps did while they were in, they're the winners.
   5. 8

      To inject an illegal drug.

      • If I tried to whack up I wouldn't get a vein it would clog up with blood, the works, the syringe, would clog up with blood and that's it,
      • When I barged in, he had a needle hanging out of his arm... He asked me if I wanted to try it and I did ... I whacked up right then.'
   6. 9

      To hit, send, or move forward or upward quickly or forcefully.

      • Swinging through, the batter whacks it up the left field line .
      • The sedan careened, flopped over to the right. Its headlights whacked up and then gracefully swept down into emptiness.
      • Once spotting Razza, a top-tier customer, he whacks up his thumb.
   7. 10

      To increase or raise by a sizeable amount.

      • Every time they need more money, they whack up personal income tax and they spend the money. They need more money ; they whack up excise on fuel.
      • Frying onions whacks up the count – 100g of fried onions contains 146 calories.
      • That whacks up his glandular system and cool - o' - I'm here! "
   8. 11

      To mess up.

      • Did he get whacked up on ninety-nines and trash your auntie's shop?
      • His memory was all whacked up and it took him years until he was almost normal.

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