wack

wack
adj
inferior, worthless, unpleasant. A vogue term in use in the black hip hop and rap subcultures in the early 1980s. The term is probably derived from whacky. By the 1990s it was employed as an all-purpose pejorative, also in use among
British and
Australian adolescents.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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