What, if anything, does the word "gacky" mean to you?

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If you've never heard it before, what would you guess it meant?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I feel gacky today.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

sickly

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Post cocaine depression combined with hangover.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

'manky' more or less. slightly sordid.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, ill with connotations of sticky bodily fluids (such as mucus).

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Grim and Cacky.

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Gawky and Wacky

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I'd go along with the manky comparison, allied with just feeling a bit grubby and on the borderline of feeling unwell.

Google it and see how few references there are.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

(I just used it at work and my colleagues asked me what it meant)

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I'd think of huge piles of cocaine.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I'd think an excess of styling product.

― The Damp Is Rising (kate), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

oh i got that today.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

sick, with pasty mouth.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Paste with Sick Mouthy

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, ill in a snotty way, but it does have cocaine overtones these days too.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

You young-uns with your drugs.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Gack is commonly used as a retching sound-effect word, too, with multiple a's. GAAAACK. A specific comic strip cat is always saying it, like when he's being strangled—I can't remember which one.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

i thought Gack is onomatopeic and describes the gag reflex. Gacky therefore = nauseous or just generally sickly.

or it could be drugs, or 15 other things:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gack&defid=423569

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

I'd describe it a bit like some kind of gooey slime.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Red Hot Chilli Peppers videos.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

opps, thought you said wacky.

gacky sounds like the state just before tacky, so hmmm, a wet tacky, I guess.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

'Gacked' is a meth-related adjective, a synonym of tweaked. "He was totally gacked, chewing gum for hours," etc.

― andy j. blige, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

'gack' appears to be a particularly dire form of 'ack'. 'gacky' presumably connotes a state of being in which many stimuli provoke the gack response.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

definitely more scarce in adjective form.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

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