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    I was watching "Analyse This!" film and noticed that those mobsters used the word "to wack" a lot. I guessed it means "to kill", for example, Vitti's father was wacked in a restaurant or somebody wacked someone else. I wonder, is it usual argot word only among "Italian" mafiosi, or is it all-American slang, or in any English-speaking country? What else you may say with this "wack" word?

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    You are right, it is the jargon of Hollywood movie mobsters. In everyday use "whack" means to hit something. Like "I whacked him in the back of the head with a rolled-up newspaper." "Whack" is also an ebonics word, but don't ask me what the hell it means. There is also "to whack off" of course, which I believe the English call "wank"

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    Concerning this "wank". Is it mainly British? What do you usually do, do you wank or do you jerk off?
    oops!

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    Lol, if you're British you do the first one and if you're American you'd do the second

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    Or toss, if you're British.

    Yesterday in English, my teacher wrote names for detentions on the board and then one boy said, "If I'm good, will you rub me off?" Ah, fun times...
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    Oddo: I don't get the joke. Could you explain please?

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    'Rub off' - два значения: erase from blackboard/masturbate to climax.
    А если отнять еще одну?

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    Oh, I see. But what dictionary have you found the second meaning in?

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    Well since all the other questions have been answered, i will stand up for my ebonics homies in the house.

    I think they just spell it wack, (maybe cuz they can't spell). But it means like "Stupid". For example,

    Tyrone is walking home from the store with a 40 in his hand and a mac10 on his jacket, a cop stops him for "no reason" and and arrests him, and claims he does not know how the gun got in his jacket, and the alchohol is not his. After he is arrested, tyrone says to himself "Ni**a, that is wack!"
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    As for the Ebonics meaning, it can mean "That's BS", "That's crazy", "That sucks", and "That's the breaks! That's the breaks!"

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    wtf is "that's the breaks" ?
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexei
    Oh, I see. But what dictionary have you found the second meaning in?
    They don't use dictionnaries, you daft, they just speak it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogboy182
    wtf is "that's the breaks" ?
    You never heard of Kurtis Blow? Boy, you are a deprived child!

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    Quote Originally Posted by joysof
    'Rub off' - два значения: erase from blackboard/masturbate to climax.
    And "rub out" means to kill someone! What is the English fixation with making slang words for sex the same as brutal murders? I think it all must have started with all those Shakespearean death<->orgasm, penis<->sword metaphors.

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    It's quite simple. Rub out is what you do to a word written in pencil, or a picture in pencil, to remove it. Doing it to a person is removing them, i.e. killing them. The act of masturbation involves rubbing, obviously! These aren't connected.
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    All the languages I know have this duality: "obscene" sex-related words may also be used for something intense. Homicide being just one example of something intense.
    Jonesboro, Arkansas. Mean, stupid, violent fat people, no jobs, nothing to do, hotter than a dog with 2 d--cks.

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    I know about "rub out" - my Longman's dictionary contains this phrasal verb, but it doesn't contain the obscene meaning of "rub off". I should've guessed to look it up in a slang dictionary...
    Thank you all for explaining.

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    It's not standard slang, it's just open to deliberate misinterpretation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mike
    I think it all must have started with all those Shakespearean death<->orgasm, penis<->sword metaphors.
    Oh! That's something. You are not a piece of cake, man, as I see.

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    like язык ?? I was shocked and appauled to learn it's dual meaning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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