A sudden, vigorous attack or assault; to attack abruptly with force.
Origin uncertain; possibly a variant or dialectal form related to 'attack' with a chat- prefix, or possibly from Hindi/Urdu roots. The word appears in historical texts but its exact etymology remains unclear.
Chattack is one of those words that linguists can't quite pin down—it might be onomatopoetic (the sound of sudden violence), or it got lost in colonial translation. Sometimes words outlive their own origins.
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