full whack

phrase

British, informal

: full price

I ended up paying full whack for items that went on sale the next day.

Examples of full whack in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One key difference is Best Buy has also dropped prices for the Pixel 8 range, whereas Google is still charging full whack for the 2023 flagship. — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024

The hope is that having returned to the cinemas, maturer patrons might even pay the full whack for movies over the weekend. — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024

The car's total output at full whack is naturally rear biased, because while each front motor is rated at 295 hp and 207 lb-ft, the two rear drive units are good for a monster 644 horses and 664 lb-ft apiece. — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2022

Rhymes for full whack

• aback
• attack
• backpack
• backtrack
• bareback
• blackjack
• brownback
• buyback
• callback
• cognac
• comeback
• cutback