whacker
noun/ˈwækə(ɹ)/ · /ˈʍækə(ɹ)/
Etymology From whack + -er.
1
One who, or something which, whacks.
- Joe was just about the best Australian heavyweight at the time, a very tough customer in his own right. He didn't have any science, but he was a mighty whacker.1963, George Blaikie, Scandals of Australia's Strange Past, Adelaide: Rigby Limited, page 117:
2
Informal Synonym of whopper (“anything large”).
3
Informal Synonym of whopper (“an outrageous or blatant lie”).
- "Oh, there's a whacker!" cried East; "we haven't been within a hundred yards of his barn; we haven't been up here above ten minutes, and we've seen nothing but a tough old guinea-hen, who ran like a greyhound."1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
- But all the while Captain Amos Brown was telling whackers that would have done credit to Baron Munchausen, he was really thinking of how he was to save those whose passage to a port not named in any bills of lading looked almost certain.1908, Morley Roberts, “The Captain of the Ullswater”, in The Blue Peter:
4
Slang A radio amateur who is keenly interested in emergency response and may travel to the sites of emergencies.
- Derived terms
- Packer whacker, weed whacker, weedwhacker