whacked

past tense of whack
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Recent Examples of whacked Poor guy is probably just trying to watch the home run derby in peace and just got drive by whacked by me. Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2026 Pop, a Romanian, was rolling through another service game when Bobker whacked an easy backhand beyond the baseline. Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 July 2026 The experience was not entirely dissimilar to getting whacked in the skull. Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026 Hastings whacked a triple down the right-field line to bring in two runs and give the Diamonds a 3-2 lead. Latif Love june 18, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026 Mitchell Robinson elbow checked him in the face, Jose Alvarado pulled off a single-legged take-down in the first half, and Towns drew a frustration flagrant foul when Wembanyama whacked him in the face. Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026 The wacky misplay happened during the top of the fourth inning on June 2, when Rockies third baseman TJ Rumfield whacked a deep fly to right field, which then grazed off the left side of Adell’s glove and off the top of his head. Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 The Labour government has whacked levies on private schools, introduced mansion taxes and is attempting to redistribute the nation’s wealth at a pace that would make Vladimir Lenin weep with joy. Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 23 May 2026 Airline stocks are getting whacked this morning thanks to the oil price surge. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whacked
Verb
  • Ted Hurst smacked him on the helmet, but Delane kept his cool and did not respond.
    Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • When the Oakland pitcher delivered his slider, Perez smacked the ball to left field down the foul line.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Congress named the performing arts center as a living memorial to Kennedy in 1964, the year after he was assassinated.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The congregation was the organizing place for the sanitation workers’ strike that brought King to town in March 1968, weeks before he was assassinated there.
    Jason Wollschleger, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • After making the grab, Allen celebrated briefly, then slapped hands with Delane.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency authorized to regulate event contract exchanges, slapped multiple states with lawsuits in response.
    Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Curry is largely there for comic relief, swanning in with a bevy of beauties, challenging Bosley (Bill Murray) to a sumo match, and, sadly, getting murdered by the pool, thus depriving us of Curry’s magnetic presence for the rest of the film.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026
  • London, who was married to hip hop legend Nipsey Hussle, would come together with Snoop again to honor Nipsey after he was murdered in 2019.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • But their rookie linebacker extended his arms, threw out a hand and knocked the ball free from London’s grasp.
    Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • When the group decided to move the party to a house nearby, Pysher walked there alone and mistakenly knocked on the wrong door.
    Tom Hanson, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Florida executed 19 people last year, accounting for 40% of all executions nationwide, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Friday, Trumann police and the Poinsett County sheriff's office executed a search warrant relating to Rebecca Lucille Montgomery, 44, Trumann police said in a social media post.
    Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Dramatic footage shows a torrent of water hitting at the Nepal-China border.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Parton earned dozens of top 10 country hits, and her professional ambitions grew along with her career.
    Jewly Hight, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Prosecutors allege Shakur was killed to avenge the rapper's entourage attacking Davis' nephew, Anderson, a few hours earlier at the MGM Grand after a boxing match involving Mike Tyson.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Forty of those have been delivered, Skibitskiy said, and two are suspected to have been used in Radushne, in the Dnipro Region, on 30 July in an attack that killed at least four children from the same family.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

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