whacked, ppl. a. slang.
(hwækd)
[f. whack v. + -ed1.]
1. Tired out, exhausted.
| 1919 Athenæum 15 Aug. 759/1 ‘Whacked to the wide’ means to be tired out. 1952 J. Cannon Body in Beck v. 82 He had been on the job since dawn, was whacked and must call it a day. 1960 L. Meynell Bandaberry vi. 100 I'm whacked. How far have we done? 1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 118 In addition to recovering from the injury to my right hand I was whacked when I arrived back in England from the MCC tour. |
2. whacked out: mad, crazy; spec. intoxicated with drugs. Cf. wacky a. U.S.
| 1969 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) Summer 17 Whacked out, unorthodox; inclined toward foolish acts. 1969 ‘V. Packer’ Don't rely on Gemini (1970) i. 8 You Cancers are whacked out because the moon rules you. 1975 High Times Dec. 68/3 Then there's the pilot who was whacked out of his skull and landed a hundred-grand rented Cessna 411 gear up in Las Vegas. 1980 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Sept. 11/2 In America, the term ‘whacked-out’ is current, as an intensified form of ‘spaced out’ or ‘zonked out’, meaning soft-headed after prolonged and excessive use of drugs. |