A whacking good story.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A whacking phone bill.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I clumsily put on my new clothes, again whacking my limbs against the walls, and opened the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Trinity | Station151] Reference

I also recall whacking to death at least one keyboard in my newspaper days.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 September 26 « Exile on Ninth Street] Reference

Some "whacking" when young can spur a child on to become president, MPs heard on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The finale dragged on and on, there was one 'whacking' and you are in suspense towards the end for nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A SOPRANOS Confession | the TV addict] Reference

In it, Perry says, Koresh "talks about stripping off the clothes of a young girl and 'whacking' it to her right there.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Children Of The Cult] Reference

When people feel insulted or disgusted, they generally do something about it, such as whacking each other over the head, or voting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Gilbert: If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming] Reference

You believe in whacking innocent creatures?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Bay of Souls by Robert Stone] Reference

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd ready for next poll 'whacking'.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

The sound of your Black Mage "whacking" away with his staff never sounded any better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Traders in the Chicago office of Optiver openly talked among themselves of "whacking" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Global Home] Reference

The officer read aloud from his notebook what people were overhead saying about "whacking".    From Wordnik.com.  [VDARE.com: Blog Articles] Reference

Substitute "whacking" for "observing" and you've got something that might be more appropriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bronze Blog] Reference

Australian floods: Rockhampton residents are 'whacking' Queensland's venomous snakes to keep themselves safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

"whacking," had the effect of crushing the spirit of rebellion which had just begun to arise in his breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story] Reference

"GRIFFIN: We are not, in your words, we are not "whacking" the space science program to pay for human exploration.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Watch: News: January 2006 Archives] Reference

"Well, let's get the whacking over with," suggested Andy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery] Reference

But everybody expected some major whacking in the last episode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song Rights ...  and Wrongs] Reference

This took a lot less time than whacking your average groundhog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gyre and Gimble] Reference

The audience wouldn't give her a whacking if the show went badly!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

"Just the kids whacking the brush, I guess," he said, half-aloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffalo Roost] Reference

  I unslung a four pound spike sledge and started whacking on the ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEVEN DEGREES LESS THAN ZERO] Reference

It was only a skirmish -- a bush-whacking fight for the possession of a swamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

Who'll play the role of the man whacking out his wife's teeth while the kids watch?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randy Susan Meyers: Sexing Up Domestic Violence] Reference

"Companies are now whacking customers with fines at the gate for extra bags," Bower says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Airlines hit travellers with extra baggage charges] Reference

      Jamal felt like whacking him, but the thought of the pretty woman changed his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.14: Ki to Wisdom] Reference

And all it took to get it was a couple of million years of whacking two rocks against each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handy Bunch: Tools, Thumbs Helped Us Thrive] Reference

M. Powell = Colin's son quits FCC chair after promoting new tech, helping big media, whacking Howard Stern.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONVENTIONAL WISDOM] Reference

Actually, some of the same reporters who are currently whacking Clinton have also scrutinized the president.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Affection, And Vivisection] Reference

 Billy ambled out of what was left of his childhood home, whacking the red maple with his tail as he passed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession] Reference

Jen Jin-Liu and Melinda LiuSCIENCEWondrous WeedsMost weeds are noxious, unwanted plants awaiting a whacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

In another, veteran Thai trainer Neng is whacking willing victims with a stick when not being kneed in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dizzee Rascal: Fight to the top] Reference

Instead he imagines a dead body being dragged around the room, the head whacking against the bed, the doorframe, the desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Keeps Us Awake] Reference

The standards aren't perfect, of course; when NEWSWEEK visited, the camera caught one teacher whacking a pupil with a ruler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doing It Themselves] Reference

For more weed-whacking advice, read this report on dealing with weeds and use our Guide to Common Lawn Problems interactive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weekend Project: Get rid of dandelions] Reference

Remember how Kathy Bates in "" Misery '' told James Caan she was his "" No. 1 fan '' before whacking him with a sledgehammer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Slick Willey Edition] Reference

Standing there in Kapa'au you imagined whacking King Kamehameha with a sledge hammer and shattering him into several million pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Catch a Glimpse of, Forget As Soon] Reference

There's even a nerdy parlor game called Google whacking, where you try to come up with a two-word search that yields a single result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faster Than The Rest] Reference