| 单词 | wack |
| 释义 | ▪ I. wack1 slang (orig. U.S.).|wæk|
Also whack.
[Prob. back-formation f. wacky a.]
An eccentric or crazy person; a madman, a crackpot.
1938‘E. Queen’ Four of Hearts (1939) i. 9 All you wacks act this way at first. Them that can take it snaps out of it. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris xi. 198 The show place, the rendezvous of eccentrics, Bohemians, playboys, sightseers and international whacks is the St. Germain des Prés quarter. 1959R. Graves in Lilliput Dec. 48/2 ‘I don't get the joke,’ Len grumbled. ‘That wack gave me the creeps! One of those ‘creative artists’ who create chaos’. 1982G. F. Newman Men with Guns xi. 81 The cop shrugged. ‘Some wack with a grudge.’
Add:B. adj. Bad; harmful; unfashionable, boring. Esp. in the anti-drug slogan crack is wack and varr.
1986N.Y. Times 19 Sept. b3/5 Keith Haring, creator of the ‘Crack is Wack’ mural in East Harlem. 1989Chicago Tribune 22 Oct. iv. 1/1 A brightly colored mural painted on a handball court carried the succinct message, ‘Crack Be Wack, Jack.’ 1990D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland vii. 183 Suburbia is filled with second-generation Deadheads, twenty wack years after. 1992Vibe Fall (Preview Issue) 45 That was what sparked us to start the band: seeing all these wack people getting paid.
▪ II. wack2 dial. (chiefly Liverpool).|wæk|
Also whack.
[Cf. wacker.]
A familiar term of address; ‘pal’, ‘mate’.
1963Beatles 18 Said Ringo: ‘Do you want an anaesthetic, wack?’ 1966P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 50 I'll get you wack! You must come back! 1972‘K. Royce’ Miniatures Frame ix. 124 ‘How's it, whack?’ He..eyed me affectionately. 1976New Musical Express 12 Feb. 18/6 Gorra light 'ave yer, wack?
▪ III. wack
see wak, wake, walk v.2, whack. |
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