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Wack vs Nack - What's the difference?

wack | nack |

As an adjective wack

is egregious.

As a noun wack

is an eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.

As a verb nack is

(computing) to acknowledge negatively; to send a nak signal to.

wack

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Egregious
  • (From hip-hop slang) bad (as in not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, inauthentic, lame, or strange.
  • Every record they ever made was straight-up wack .
  • (slang) crazy, mad, insane
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.
  • Synonyms

    * wackjob * wacko

    nack

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To acknowledge negatively; to send a NAK signal to.