whammy
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈwæmi/
- Slang
:
maldición
- After the team lost the championship, they thought a whammy had been placed on them.
- put the whammy
- double whammy
Examples
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Some say that stepping on a crack will bring a whammy to your family, so be careful.
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A double-wide Wowie whammy!
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You think you can put the whammy over on a law student?
Fiction book (1996) -
One might possibly have put the whammy on CA.
Blog text (29) -
Yeah, yeah, both double, double, double whammy, but I didn't know.
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You get a wolf hide belt, put it on, say the magic words and whammy, you're a wolf, a hexen wolf.
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But the whammy was on earlier in the night when the 4-5 Baylor Bears pimp slapped the Kansas State Wildcats convincingly 52-24.
Blog text (1) -
They believed the old woman cast a whammy on their luck, causing them to lose every game.
Synonyms
262
5.5
A magic spell that brings harm to a person or thing
166
1.0
Unlucky events that happen by chance
75
3.7
A bad event that causes trouble
28
8.7
An evil spell that brings bad luck to a person or place
1
8.1
A spell people think causes bad luck
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Etymology
Whammy is also used to mean a 'curse' or 'evil spell', probably because people imagined bad luck as a sudden 'hit' from something unseen. A helpful way to remember this is to think of a whammy as a hidden 'hit' that brings bad luck, so someone might say a 'whammy' was put on them.