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whack
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whack - According to arch-hacker James Gosling, to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glarking things from context. As a trivial example, it is relatively easy to change all "stderr" writes to "stdout" writes in a piece of C filter code which remains otherwise mysterious.
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And just as my lack of experience in those distant days limited me to a single knot, so did it restrict me to a single method of cleaning fish, which was to scrape away the scales, whack off the head, and remove the entrails.
Old-fashioned baked fillets by Dunaway, Vic / Florida Sportsman
Give the stump a hefty whack off the ground to try to dislodge any loose needles.
Don't forget a fresh test by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Fagan laughed: "My first game of the season was for Hull City at Albion and straight away I got a whack off him
Football: No quarter asked in tough-tackling clash by Birmingham Mail (England)
 
 
 
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