slang
: of poor skill or quality : not good or appealing
… while there are skilled moments, there are wack ones as well.—
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Examples of wack in a Sentence
that movie was wack, even by the standards of popcorn flicks
Recent Examples on the Web
When retrograde is in full swing everything is out of wack, so this is a good way to keep things straight.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
As can be surmised all are certainly wack, but none so much as the original, the video for which finds Banks sprawled on zebra-skin blanket, texting on an iPhone 2, batting broken raps around like cats do half-dead mice.
—Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023
Unseemly gloom is really wack.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
My son can't have a wack rapper dad.
—Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
Here is a man who got unconscionably rich off the worst website that has ever existed, a website that has broken brains on a scale previously unimaginable in human history, and here is his stupendously wack vision for the future—and everyone is just going to have to deal with it.
—David Roth, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2021
That kid is wack.
—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2021
That's very wack in 2020, in my opinion.
—Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 5 Nov. 2020
As the push to teach this nonsense in public schools continues to this day, parroting the idea to a large audience, even jokingly, is kind of wack.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2022
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
As can be surmised all are certainly wack, but none so much as the original, the video for which finds Banks sprawled on zebra-skin blanket, texting on an iPhone 2, batting broken raps around like cats do half-dead mice.
—Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023
Unseemly gloom is really wack.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
My son can't have a wack rapper dad.
—Alexandra Hurtado, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
Here is a man who got unconscionably rich off the worst website that has ever existed, a website that has broken brains on a scale previously unimaginable in human history, and here is his stupendously wack vision for the future—and everyone is just going to have to deal with it.
—David Roth, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2021
That kid is wack.
—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2021
That's very wack in 2020, in my opinion.
—Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 5 Nov. 2020
As the push to teach this nonsense in public schools continues to this day, parroting the idea to a large audience, even jokingly, is kind of wack.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2022
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Word History
Etymology
probably alteration of wacky
First Known Use
1984, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near wack
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“Wack.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wack. Accessed 21 Sep. 2023.
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