wack

• whack

Back-formation from wacky.

• IPA^(key): /wæk/, /ʍak/

• Audio (AU)

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• Homophone: whack (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

wack (comparative wacker, superlative wackest)

1. Egregious.
2. (hip-hop slang) Bad (not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, inauthentic, lame, or strange.

   Every record they ever made was straight-up wack.

3. (slang) Crazy, mad, insane.
4. Cool, bizarre, and potentially scary.

wack (plural wacks)

1. An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.

• wackjob, wacko; see also Thesaurus:strange person

• cawk