whack up

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To divide into shares; divvy. idiomatic,slang
    — 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.
  2. To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty; to cough up; to shell out. idiomatic,slang
    — 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.
  3. To cut up or chop up. slang
    — I have whacked up some wood, and I'm sure of this fact, that it pays to be good.
  4. To strike someone or something repeatedly or very forcefully. slang
    — 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."
  5. To control or dominate someone or something in a thorough or severe manner. idiomatic,slang
    — 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?"
  6. To create or produce in a sudden or haphazard manner. idiomatic,slang
    — 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.
  7. To gather together; to accumulate or come up with. idiomatic,slang
    — The men was all to the Banks, and Counahan he whacked up an iverlastin' hard crowd fer crew.
  8. To inject an illegal drug. idiomatic,slang
    — 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,
  9. To hit, send, or move forward or upward quickly or forcefully. slang
    — Swinging through, the batter whacks it up the left field line .
  10. To increase or raise by a sizeable amount. idiomatic
    — 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.
  11. To mess up. idiomatic,slang
    — on all the long bars it was even; the short bars we would leave in—that is, whack up the length; so that the short bars wouldn't come out as far as the long bars; but I put some of the short bars on the long bars and some of the long bars on the short bars;

词形变化

whacks up present,singular,third-person whacking up participle,present whacked up participle,past whacked up past
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