whack up

verb

whacked up; whacking up; whacks up

transitive verb

: to divide into shares

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The truth of this new arrangement is that the most powerful college conferences are whacking up the country into territories, the way the Five Families of the New York mafia once did, the Gambino and Colombo crime families now doing business as the SEC and ACC and Big Ten and Big Twelve. Guy Lawson, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1893, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of whack up was circa 1893

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“Whack up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whack%20up. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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