whacking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of whack

adj

1. (informal, not-comparable)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 […]”

   “[…] beside them clung a trumpeter, a whacking big man, an’ between the heavy seas he would lift his trumpet with one hand, and blow a call; and every time he blew the men gave a cheer.”

   “He was what they call a Hard-shell Baptist in those parts, with a long, shaven upper lip and a whacking appetite, and a sort of superior look, as if he didn't expect to see many of us hereafter […]”

   “There was no secret in Genoa about the destination of the little tramp with the peculiar equipment of lifeboats and davits—two whacking great motor boats each as big as a Navy pinnace, each with a couple of hundred horse-power in her.”

noun

1. (countable)A beating.
2. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of waacking (“dance style”).