A little old woman foiled the robbery by whacking the thief on the head with her cane.
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Whacking
Synonyms for "whacking" (56 found)
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It's still unclear to many, especially to those who half destroyed it and surrendered it to Iran, whether Iraq should be pronounced e-rack or aye-rack. But, after all, is it necessary to know how to pronounce a country's name before whacking it?
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Gustavo heard a whacking sound.
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1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289, […] all our grannies tell us how He kill’d a whacking great dun cow;
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