out of whack

1. 1.

   out of balance or out of adjustment

   “the front wheel of my bicycle is out of whack”

   Similarmalfunctioning

   idiom

Questions about out of whack

What does out of whack mean?

out of whack means "out of balance or out of adjustment".

Is out of whack a common word?

out of whack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.