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Smack   /smæk/   Listen
Smack

noun
1.
A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).  Synonym: slap.
2.
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.  Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, tang.
3.
A sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast.
4.
Street names for heroin.  Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, thunder.
5.
An enthusiastic kiss.  Synonym: smooch.
6.
The act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand.  Synonyms: slap, smacking.
verb
(past & past part. smacked; pres. part. smacking)
1.
Deliver a hard blow to.  Synonym: thwack.
2.
Have an element suggestive (of something).  Synonyms: reek, smell.  "This passage smells of plagiarism"
3.
Have a distinctive or characteristic taste.  Synonym: taste.
4.
Kiss lightly.  Synonym: peck.
5.
Press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating.
adverb
1.
Directly.  Synonyms: bang, bolt, slap, slapdash.  "Ran slap into her"



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"Smack" Quotes from Famous Books



... from my palm, floated erratically around, crossed over to my desk and dropped with a soft smack to the teak. She came to me like a tigress. I don't know why I expected a repetition of our first innocent kiss—I knew she had ...
— The Right Time • Walter Bupp
... into a sob. That 'ma'am' cost her a terrible effort; the sound of it seemed to smack her ...
— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing
... then, shall be his, If thou'lt give me a smack; Then thou mayest hasten, miss, Upon thy German ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... gone out and had a smack at the Boers. Nothing I should have liked better. But, of course, I'm only a parson, you know. It wouldn't have been thought the correct thing." Mr. Dryland, from his superior height, beamed down on James. "I don't know whether you remember ...
— The Hero • William Somerset Maugham
... the only son of a fisherman, who had taken his smack to an isolated village on the Nova Scotian coast. Here the fisherman did well, and before the boy was half grown owned the finest cottage in the village—which he bought cheap because it was perched on the crest of the hill, exposed to every storm that ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson


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