loss vs whack

loss

noun
  • Defeat; an instance of being defeated. 

  • The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement. 

  • The death of a person or animal. 

  • Something that has been destroyed or ruined. 

  • The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died. 

  • The sum an entity loses on balance. 

  • The destruction or ruin of an object. 

  • Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work. 

whack

noun
  • An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something. 

  • The sound of a heavy strike. 

  • The strike itself. 

  • The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩. 

  • The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact. 

verb
  • To kill, bump off. 

  • To surpass; to better. 

  • To beat convincingly; to thrash. 

  • To hit, slap or strike. 

  • To share or parcel out (often with up). 

How often have the words loss and whack occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )