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Smack   /smæk/   Listen
noun
Smack  n.  (Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.


Smack  n.  
1.
Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively. "So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness." "They felt the smack of this world."
2.
A small quantity; a taste.
3.
A loud kiss; a buss. "A clamorous smack."
4.
A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
5.
A quick, smart blow; a slap.


Smack  n.  Same as heroin; a slang term. (slang)


verb
Smack  v. t.  
1.
To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
2.
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. "Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish."
3.
To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. "She smacks the silken thong."


Smack  v. i.  (past & past part. smacked; pres. part. smacking)  
1.
To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
2.
To have or exhibit and indication or suggestion of the presence of any character or quality; to have a taste, or flavor; used with of; as, a remark smacking of contempt. " All sects, all ages, smack of this vice."
3.
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.
4.
To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.


adverb
Smack  adv.  As if with a smack or slap. (Colloq.)





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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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