Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Whacking
Whacking adjective - Unusually large.
Both words in one sentence
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Happens in Psych, between a policeman and... a cowboy (not a real cowboy - this is the one at those little re-enactment tourist traps), after it's uncovered he's been whacking people to try and keep a gold cache under the town secret.
Source: Showdown at High Noon -
And if you keep whacking him, he'll eventually get more and more confused sounding, and then eventually he stops showing up, indicating that you may have actually killed him.
Source: What the Hell, Player? -
Death of a Thousand Cuts: In Gothic II, the easiest way to bring down the big Troll enemies (if you weren't a caster) was to just keep whacking at them.
Source: Video Game / Gothic
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