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 Definitions of smack  [æk]  

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Definition of 'smack' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) smack
a taste or flavor, esp. a slight flavor distinctive or suggestive of something.

2.  smack
a trace or suggestion of something.

3. (v.i.) smack
to have a taste, flavor, trace, or suggestion:
a compliment that smacks of condescension.

4. (v.t.) smack
to strike sharply, esp. with the open hand; slap.

5.  smack
to drive or send with a sharp, resounding blow:
to smack a ball over the fence.

6.  smack
to close and open (the lips) smartly so as to produce a sharp sound, often as a sign of relish, as in eating.

7.  smack
to kiss with a loud sound.

8. (v.i.) smack
to smack the lips.

9.  smack
to collide with or strike something forcibly.

10. (n.) smack
a sharp, resounding blow; slap.

11.  smack
a smacking of the lips, as in relish or anticipation.

12.  smack
a loud kiss.

13. (adv.) smack
suddenly and violently:
rode smack up against the side of the house.

14.  smack
directly; straight:
smack in the center of town.

15. (n.) smack
Eastern U.S. a fishing vessel, esp. one having a well for keeping the catch alive.

Etymology:  (1960–65)

Definition of 'smack' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) slap, smack
a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

2. (noun) relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang
the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

3. (noun) smack
a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast

4. (noun) big H, hell dust, nose drops, smack, thunder, skag, scag
street names for heroin

5. (noun) smack, smooch
an enthusiastic kiss

6. (verb) smack, smacking, slap
the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

7. (verb) smack, thwack
deliver a hard blow to
"The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved"

8. (verb) smack, reek, smell
have an element suggestive (of something)
"his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism"

9. (verb) smack, taste
have a distinctive or characteristic taste
"This tastes of nutmeg"

10. (verb) smack, peck
kiss lightly

11. (adverb) smack
press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating

12. (adverb) bang, slap, slapdash, smack, bolt
directly
"he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her"


Definition of 'smack' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) smack
to hit with a flat hand; = slap
She smacked him across the face.

2.  smack
to hit very hard
The truck smacked into the wall.; My uncle smacked his fist down on the table.

3. (noun) smack
a hit with your hand held flat
a smack on the bottom

4.  smack
a loud sound of sth hitting a surface hard
His bucket landed with a smack in the water.

5. (adverb) smack
smack /smack dab
exactly in a place
The house is smack dab in the middle of the town.


Definition of 'smack' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adverb) smack
as if with a smack or slap

2. (noun) smack
a small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade

3. (noun) smack
to have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste

4. (noun) smack
to have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality

5. (noun) smack
to kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss

6. (noun) smack
to make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything

7. (verb) smack
taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively

8. (verb) smack
a small quantity; a taste

9. (verb) smack
a loud kiss; a buss

10. (verb) smack
a quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip

11. (verb) smack
a quick, smart blow; a slap

12. (verb) smack
to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss

13. (verb) smack
to open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting

14. (verb) smack
to make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip


Definitions of 'smack' The Roycroft Dictionary 

smack
A crude, rude, vulgar and unsatisfactory substitute for a kiss.


Translation of 'smack' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to strike smartly and loudly; to slap
She smacked the child's hand/bottom.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: klap Arabic flag Arabic: يَصْفَع Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: шляпвам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: dar uma palmada Czech flag Czech: plácnout German flag German: einen Klaps geben
Danish flag Danish: smække Greek flag Greek: χαστουκίζω Spanish flag Spanish: dar una palmada
Estonian flag Estonian: laksu andma Farsi flag Farsi: سيلي زدن Finnish flag Finnish: läimäyttää
French flag French: donner une tapeà Hebrew flag Hebrew: לִסטוֹר Hindi flag Hindi: थप्पड़ मारना
Croatian flag Croatian: pljusnuti, pljesnuti koga Hungarian flag Hungarian: csattant; rácsap Indonesian flag Indonesian: menampar
Icelandic flag Icelandic: slá, löðrunga Italian flag Italian: dare un ceffone* Japanese flag Japanese: たたく
Korean flag Korean: ‘찰싹’ 소리가 나도록 때리다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pliaukštelėti Latvian flag Latvian: uzsist; dot pliķi
Malay flag Malay: menampar Dutch flag Dutch: kletsen Norwegian flag Norwegian: klaske (til), gi ris
Polish flag Polish: klepnąć, trzepnąć Persian flag Persian: سيلي زدن Pashto flag Pashto: څپیره وهل
Portuguese flag Portuguese: dar uma palmada Romanian flag Romanian: a da o palmă (cuiva) Russian flag Russian: шлёпать
Slovak flag Slovak: plesnúť, capnúť Slovenian flag Slovenian: klofniti Serbian flag Serbian: pljusnuti
Swedish flag Swedish: smälla (daska) [till] Thai flag Thai: ตบ Turkish flag Turkish: tokatlamak,şamar vurmak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 拍打,用掌擊 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: ляпати, ляскати Urdu flag Urdu: چپت لگانا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: tát, tạt, vỗ Chinese flag Chinese: 拍打,用掌击

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