Crossword-Solution: WHACKS
We have 12 clues for the answer “WHACKS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hits, as with a ruler | 1 answer |
| Slays, Soprano-style | 1 answer |
| Strikes soundly | 1 answer |
| Eliminates, mob-style | 2 answers |
| Hits sharply | 2 answers |
| Resounding blows | 3 answers |
| Clouts | 5 answers |
| Strikes sharply | 5 answers |
| Bumps off | 6 answers |
| Sharp blows | 6 answers |
| Hits | 17 answers |
| Clobbers | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WHACKS (5)
You call it a lot of nicknames--“Babs” and “Bibs” and “Viddles” and “Vee”; you whack at it playfully, and it whacks you back.
From other shops, the noise of striking blows: Pounds, thumps, and whacks; Wooden sounds: splinters--cracks.
But tell me, señor, what do you call this excellent and rare adventure that has left us as we are left now? Though your worship was not so badly off, having in your arms that incomparable beauty you spoke of; but I, what did I have, except the heaviest whacks I think I had in all my life? Unlucky me and the mother that bore me! for I am not a knight-errant and never expect to be one, and of all the mishaps, the greater part falls to my share.” “Then thou hast been thrashed too?” said Don Quixote.
While the confusion kept up, with whacks and blows and threshing about, with language such as never before had disgraced a group of old campers, I choked with rapture, and reveled in the sweetness of revenge.
Mac and I settle our rows with a bat or so over the head, and then we are all right.” Rose couldn't help laughing as Steve sparred away at a fat sofa-pillow, to illustrate his meaning; and, having given it several scientific whacks, he pulled down his cuffs and smiled upon her with benign pity for her feminine ignorance of this summary way of settling a quarrel.
Quotes with WHACKS (3)
Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.
It almost feels like at some point life whacks you on top of the head and hands you a list of all the things you can keep. The list is surprisingly long. You can keep letters. You can keep trying. You can keep secrets and you can try your hardest to keep promises. You can keep your eyes on the road. You can keep his sweatshirt, the one he left on the living room floor. You can keep photos and you can keep the memories. But you cannot keep people. People are not things - you can't keep them.
They play, said the old man. Every week the anglos play a game to celebrate who they are. He stopped, raised his cane and fanned the air. One of them whacks it, then sets off like it was a trip around the world, to every one of the bases out there, you know the anglos have bases all over the world, right? Well the one who whacked it runs from one to the next while the others keep taking swings to distract their enemies, and if he doesn't get caught he makes it home and his pe…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1971–2024).