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wack

adj
/ˈwæk/

Etymology

Back-formation from wacky. Alternatively, possibly a blend of white + black, in the sense that it may appear black on the outside, but it's really white on the inside. Compare oreo.

  1. inherited from *bʰleg-✻
  2. inherited from *blakaz✻
  3. inherited from *blak✻
  4. inherited from blæc
  5. inherited from blak
  6. compounded as wack — “white + black”

Definitions

  1. Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses

    Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, corny, cringy, uncool, messed up.

    • Every record they ever made was straight-up wack.
    • Ya'll are so wack.
    • The next day, Phonte gets in, and I let him hear the song, and he goes, 'This dude is wack, but what’s up with that beat though?' And I said, 'It's ours.'

  2. An eccentric

    An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.

  3. PCP, phencyclidine (as also whack).

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A friendly term of address.

      • A few well chosen words such as "Let's be having you wack!", works wonders. The dockers know that they've got a Scouse to deal with. I'm not saying that a Southerner couldn't handle the situation, but the job might well take longer.
      • Leading Seaman Hanlon, a tough young man from the Liverpool docks, greeted him with, 'Wot's up with you, wack? Lost yer bleeding maor summat?'
      • One of the young men stepped forward to explain. It was obviously an enthusiasm of his. 'Hey, Wack, gerron wiv it, eh?'

    2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

wicky-wack

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wack. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA