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wicky-wack

wicky-wack adjective: not entirely legitimate; odd; eccentric.

Adjective

wicky-wack (comparative more wicky-wack, superlative most wicky-wack)

  1. Not entirely legitimate; odd; eccentric.
    • He told me how you get ready to go into the tank by looking at yourself in the mirror with your nose up against it—all kinds of wicky-wack things, all kinds of gorp.1985, Richard P[hillips] Feynman, edited by Edward Hutchings, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997...
    • Hacky Sack? Kinda wicky wack—get a real sport, like hopscotch.1994 August, Ricky Powell, “What's Up With That”, in VIBE, volume 2, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Time Publishing Ventures, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26

Forms of wicky-wack

comparativemore wicky-wack
superlativemost wicky-wack

Questions about wicky-wack

What does wicky-wack mean?
Wicky-wack means not entirely legitimate; odd; eccentric.
What part of speech is wicky-wack?
Wicky-wack is an adjective.

Words near wicky-wack in the dictionary

  1. Wickware
  2. Wickwares
  3. Wickwire
  4. Wickwires
  5. wicky
  6. wicky-wack
  7. wickyup
  8. wickyups
  9. Wicomico County
  10. wicopy
  11. wid

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