whacks up

Verb

whack up (third-person singular simple present whacks up, present participle whacking up, simple past and past participle whacked up)

1. (idiomatic, slang) To divide into shares; divvy.
   • 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.1901, Jack London, The God of his Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
2. (idiomatic, slang) To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty; to cough up; to shell out.
   • 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.1903, Craig McClure, “Unprevaricated Proverbs”, in Home Journal, volume 59, page 13
3. (slang) To cut up or chop up.
   • I have whacked up some wood, and I'm sure of this fact, that it pays to be good.1911, Walt Mason, “The Commercial Basis”, in Farm Journal, volumes 35-36, page 93
4. (slang) To strike someone or something repeatedly or very forcefully.
   • The long check-rein whacked up the leader, and sent the whole team on a brisk trot down the winding grade to the music of a black-snake whip, its sharp notes resounding among the hills and vales of the "blue-grass land."1883, John Alexander Joyce, A Checkered Life, page 25
5. (idiomatic, slang) To control or dominate someone or something in a thorough or severe manner.
   • District 50 is trying to whack up the AFL- CIO, " said Carlough, "why doesn't the AFL - CIO go out and whack up District 50?"1961, Edward J. Carlough, Aluminum Light, page 9
6. (idiomatic, slang) To create or produce in a sudden or haphazard manner.
   • And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos.1911, Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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