whack up
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."