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smack
1[ smak ]
smack
2[ smak ]
verb (used with object)
- to strike sharply, especially with the open hand or a flat object.
- to drive or send with a sharp, resounding blow or stroke:
to smack a ball over a fence.
- to close and open (the lips) smartly so as to produce a sharp sound, often as a sign of relish, as in eating.
- to kiss with or as with a loud sound.
verb (used without object)
- to smack the lips.
- to collide, come together, or strike something forcibly.
- to make a sharp sound as of striking against something.
noun
- a sharp, resounding blow, especially with something flat.
- a smacking of the lips, as in relish or anticipation.
- a resounding or loud kiss.
adverb
- suddenly and violently:
He rode smack up against the side of the house.
The street runs smack into the center of town.
verb phrase
- Slang. to humble (an arrogant person); rebuke or criticize severely.
smack
3[ smak ]
noun
- Eastern U.S. a fishing vessel, especially one having a well for keeping the catch alive.
- British. any of various small, fully decked, fore-and-aft-rigged vessels used for trawling or coastal trading.
smack
4[ smak ]
noun
smack
1/ smæk /
smack
2/ smæk /
noun
- a sailing vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in coasting and fishing along the British coast
- a fishing vessel equipped with a well for keeping the catch alive
smack
3/ smæk /
noun
- a smell or flavour that is distinctive though faint
- a distinctive trace or touch
the smack of corruption
- a small quantity, esp a mouthful or taste
verb
- to have the characteristic smell or flavour (of something)
to smack of the sea
- to have an element suggestive (of something)
his speeches smacked of bigotry
smack
4/ smæk /
verb
- tr to strike or slap smartly, with or as if with the open hand
- to strike or send forcibly or loudly or to be struck or sent forcibly or loudly
- to open and close (the lips) loudly, esp to show pleasure
- tr to kiss noisily
noun
- a sharp resounding slap or blow with something flat, or the sound of such a blow
- a loud kiss
- a sharp sound made by the lips, as in enjoyment
- have a smack at informal.to attempt
- smack in the eye informal.a snub or setback
adverb
- directly; squarely
- with a smack; sharply and unexpectedly
Word History and Origins
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Origin of smack3
Word History and Origins
Origin of smack1
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Example Sentences
This year’s top engineering feats smack of the sort of sci-fi future-gazing you can find in retro issues of Popular Science.
Kyra often smacks herself on the side of the head with her hand or bites her palm so hard she draws blood, said her mother, Ka Wade.
Then imagine a raging river where the water smacks into the piling and becomes turbulent.
DART will travel to the 780-meter asteroid Didymos, where, in the fall of 2022, it will smack into Didymos’s 160-meter moonlet Dimorphos at well over 14,000 miles per hour.
To better understand the Hyades cluster, Oh and Evans compared the speed of stars smack in the center to those escaping from it.
To the uninitiated, this might smack of poor taste and inappropriate timing.
On the first day of shooting, Kallai and his film crew found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a war zone.
His brother Sidronio immediately took over, and the Windy City reported no shortage of smack.
In the SMU study it was found that children lasted about 10 minutes after a smack before they started misbehaving again.
Yes, Hillary Clinton talked some smack on Barack Obama to Jeff Goldberg in that interview.
Scotch shrewdness has occasionally a certain smack of mild hypocrisy, which, however, does no harm to anyone.
The little bullet-headed Jim was drafted off to the workhouse school, and from thence to a small fishing-smack.
The new smack was flying a flag at her masthead, but Jim could not read well enough to make out the inscription on the flag.
On one grey Sunday morning a pretty smack came creeping through the fleet.
The skipper of the smack invited Jim to go below, and handed him a steaming mug of tea.
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