Definition of "whacking" in English

verb

1. present participle and gerund of whack

adjective

1. (informal) Exceptionally large; whopping (often followed by an adjective such as great or big).

   • 1762, Thomas Bridges, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, London: S. Hooper, 1772, Book 7 of Homer’s Iliad, p. 289, […] all our grannies tell us how He kill’d a whacking great dun cow;
   • 1819, Olivia Clarke, The Irishwoman. A Comedy in Five Acts, London: H. Colburn, Act V, Scene 2, p. 80, […] these two whacking Irish boys, that I was telling you of just now, are posted at the hall door to seize the villain, and take him to pay his respects to the next sitting magistrate […]

noun

1. (countable) A beating.

2. (uncountable) Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).