Definition
To divide into shares; divvy.
To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty; to cough up; to shell out.
To control or dominate someone or something in a thorough or severe manner.
To create or produce in a sudden or haphazard manner.
To gather together; to accumulate or come up with.
To inject an illegal drug.
To increase or raise by a sizeable amount.
To mess up.
In Context
- "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."
- "Whack up whatever we have in the larder, and eat that."
- "American dealer breaks up, whacks up, packages, and sells kilo piecemeal for $35,000"
- "The very best of friends will gather to whack up the booty, and each man will sit at the table with his hand on his gun butt as the pie gets cut up. Very often a six-man gang can meet to whack up the proceeds and turn into a three or four-man gang in a few bloody moments of gunfire."
- "Just as he was leaving the stable, however, to go home, one of the detectives came and wanted the baggage belonging to the three men who had been taken from the coach that day, saying that there was more than one hundred thousand in money in the outfit, besides considerable jewelry, and that he would "whack up” with the driver if he would get it."
- "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."
- "He is approached by some person who tells him that he knows of a homestead that is open, but, of course, it will take a little to secure it: if the intending settler is ready to whack up $1 or $2 an acre, the place can be secured."
- "I said in th' letter that'd I'd whack up half."
- "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?""
- "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."
- "Or perhaps you'd like a row of outlets over a workbench. Another guard whacks up metal raceway in minutes."
- "After I'd washed up I put on a pot of coffee and whacked up a big batch of biscuits."
- "I'll whack up a bit of toast and I've got some cinnamon,' she said, 'somewhere. I'll whack up cinnamon toast.'"
- "They came from countries where you just whacked up a scaffold with bamboo and string and when everything collapsed you covered up the whole mess by throwing the buildings and bodies into giant holes in the ground and starting again."
- "The men was all to the Banks, and Counahan he whacked up an iverlastin' hard crowd fer crew."
- "Worships the ground you tread on but can't whack up the ginger to tell you so."
- "When the chaps who are in are all out, the other team goes in for their whack and if they can whack up more runs before they're out than the other chaps did while they were in, they're the winners."
- "Sometimes we'd make decent money . We'd whack up five, six , seven thousand dollars, so you might grab anywhere from a "G" to a couple thousand a night."
- "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,"
- "When I barged in, he had a needle hanging out of his arm... He asked me if I wanted to try it and I did ... I whacked up right then.'"
- "I seen my mum whacking up in front of me and I remember I asked her one day, I said, 'Fucking let me have a shot of that, ' ... And ... she turned around and she goes, ' If you're going to do it in front of anybody, you do it in front of me.'"
- "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."
- "Frying onions whacks up the count – 100g of fried onions contains 146 calories."
- "That whacks up his glandular system and cool - o' - I'm here! ""
- "Dad whacks up the heating in the people carrier."
- "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;"
- "Did he get whacked up on ninety-nines and trash your auntie's shop?"
- "His memory was all whacked up and it took him years until he was almost normal."