Answer to "Strikes sharply" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word WHACKS , but the solution may also be SMITES which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in Newsday).

Strikes sharply crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
WHACKS	25 %	6
SLAPS	25 %	5
KNAPS	25 %	5
SMITES	13 %	6
RAPS	13 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Strikes sharply

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• break
• liner
• strike
• double
• bark
• cutting
• barking
• ace
• against
• assault
• attack
• bombing

Crossword Answer definitions

WHACKS noun

1. The sound of a heavy strike.
2. The strike itself.
3. The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
4. An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
5. (originally Britain cant) A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
6. A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
7. A deal, an agreement.
8. The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.

WHACKS verb

1. To hit, slap or strike.
2. To kill, bump off.
3. To share or parcel out; often with up.
4. To beat convincingly; to thrash.
5. (usually in the negative) To surpass; to better.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result WHACKS

• Slays, Soprano-style
• Strikes sharply
• Resounding blows
• Bumps off
• Strikes soundly
• Clouts
• Hits sharply
• Eliminates, mob-style
• Hits, as with a ruler
• Offs

More clues leading to the result SLAPS

• Reactions to advances, often
• Slides some skin
• Smacks
• Gives a hand?
• High-fives
• Censures
• Insults
• Strikes sharply
• Executes a high five
• Gives a backhand

More clues leading to the result KNAPS

• Strikes sharply
• Creates stone tools
• Snaps suddenly: Dial.
• Crests of hills
• Sharp blows
• Sharp or abrupt blows
• Breaks a small piece off from
• Breaks small pieces from
• Breaks small pieces off from
• Shapes flint

More clues leading to the result SMITES

• Clobbers, Bible-style
• Whacks, Bible-style
• Hits, old-style
• Fells with a single blow
• Whacks hard
• Bops, Biblically
• Clobbers
• Hits hard, Biblical-style
• Strikes down, in the Bible
• Hits hard

More clues leading to the result RAPS

• Criticizes
• Knocks sharply
• Makes like Snoop Doggy Dogg
• Knocks
• Hits sharply
• Séance sounds
• Action Bronson songs
• Danny Brown songs
• Does like Lil B
• Shoots the breeze