smack
noun
[ smak ]
• a sharp slap or blow, typically one given with the palm of the hand.
• "she gave Mark a smack across the face"
Similar:
slap,
blow,
spank,
cuff,
clout,
thump,
punch,
rap,
swat,
thwack,
crack,
whack,
clip,
biff,
wallop,
swipe,
bop,
belt,
bash,
sock,
smack
verb
• strike (someone or something), typically with the palm of the hand and as a punishment.
• "Jessica smacked his face, quite hard"
Similar:
slap,
hit,
strike,
spank,
cuff,
clout,
thump,
punch,
rap,
swat,
thwack,
crack,
put someone over one's knee,
box someone's ears,
whack,
clip,
wallop,
biff,
swipe,
bop,
belt,
bash,
sock,
give someone a hiding,
warm someone's bottom,
give someone a hot bottom,
slosh,
skelp,
scud,
boff,
slug,
bust,
dong,
quilt,
smite,
• part (one's lips) noisily in eager anticipation or enjoyment of food or drink.
• "Morgan drank half the Scotch and smacked his lips"
• crack (a whip).
• "the four postilions smacked their whips in concert"
smack
adverb
• in a sudden and violent way.
• "I ran smack into the back of a parked truck"
Similar:
straight,
right,
directly,
squarely,
headlong,
dead,
plumb,
point-blank,
exactly,
precisely,
slap,
bang,
slap bang,
smack bang,
spang,
smack dab,
• exactly; precisely.
• "our mother's house was smack in the middle of the city"
Similar:
straight,
right,
directly,
squarely,
headlong,
dead,
plumb,
point-blank,
exactly,
precisely,
slap,
bang,
slap bang,
smack bang,
spang,
smack dab,
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘part (one's lips) noisily’): from Middle Dutch smacken, of imitative origin; compare with German schmatzen ‘eat or kiss noisily’.
smack
verb
• have a flavour of; taste of.
• "the tea smacked strongly of tannin"
Similar:
taste of,
have the flavour of,
have the savour of,
smack
noun
• a flavour or taste of.
• "anything with even a modest smack of hops dries the palate"
Origin:
Old English smæc ‘flavour, smell’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch smaak and German Geschmack .
smack
noun
• a single-masted sailing boat used for coasting or fishing.
• "the village still harbours a few fishing smacks"
Origin:
early 17th century: from Dutch smak, of unknown ultimate origin.
smack
noun
• heroin.
• "I was out scoring smack"
Origin:
1940s: probably an alteration of Yiddish schmeck ‘a sniff’.
