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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smack
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
▪ Most parents smack their children sometimes.
▪ Parents don't need the right to smack their children.
▪ Three children crying in pushchairs were smacked.
▪ Four children were scolded on buses and smacked.
▪ The most serious aspect of smacking children is that in a substantial number of cases this escalates to something worse.
face
▪ Catching her wrist, Holman smacked her face viciously, sending her to her knees, but still holding on to her.
▪ As soon as you think you've got it licked, it smacks you in the face.
▪ Once Williams was smacked in the face by a throw in an international game, breaking her nose.
▪ Because he thinks a woman is not gon na get up and smack him in the face.
▪ White men continued to smack his face and strike his body.
▪ Lynda Chalker had smacked his face in the crush bar of the Grand Hotel.
▪ I discovered that it was a slippery reptile that came at high speed to smack me in my face without notice.
lip
▪ The chimpanzee then pulls out the grass stem and picks off the termites with its teeth, smacking its lips with pleasure.
▪ She begins cackling, smacking her lips, like a child thinking of a turkey dinner.
▪ Granny Weatherwax smacked her lips, like some one emerging from a very deep sleep.
▪ The woman seemed to be smacking her lips over every word.
▪ He smacked his lips and stroked his moustache with surprise.
▪ Shove his face into his own shit, they were learning, and he will devour it, smacking his lips.
▪ Cranston snored gently like a child, muttering now and again and smacking his lips.
▪ The young one smacked his lips.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The cop beside him smacked him on the arm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But surely this smacks of charity; well-meaning but in many cases misguided.
▪ Father spun round, took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear.
▪ He decided to smack her for this.
▪ He stepped out, and the cold from a recent snow flurry smacked him hard in the face.
▪ He threw a curveball down, and the batter smacked it dead on.
▪ It smacks of yellow journalism....
▪ The first task is to smack the ball up the ramp and enter the rollercoaster ride.
▪ Three years ago, you smacked a girl around and people maybe said she asked for it.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
▪ You got ta feel a smack on the cheek, to make you draw back your teeth and react.
▪ You get smack cut with all kinds of shit.
▪ It was the same when we got into smack.
▪ Of course, she would have to get off smack in the long run.
give
▪ He hugs women and gives them a good smack on the lips.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
talk smack
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She gave Danny's hand a smack.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All you see in the papers now is smack, like.
▪ Authoritarians do not apologize for the smack of firm government.
▪ If the horse jumps the first fence stickily, a smack on landing will sharpen him up.
▪ So far, she'd just flushed the smack down the loo and shoved the syringes in the bin.
▪ The little girl gets pulled again, falls with a loud smack.
▪ The occasional smack meted out in a happy, secure home is not going to scar a child's psyche.
▪ Then she raised one foot and brought it down with a smack on the water, splashing him, and laughed.
III.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I drove smack into the side of the garage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I ran smack into it on Thursday.
▪ I was smack in the middle of this interesting war.
▪ It came to rest smack against the mountain two miles west of Morrisonville.
▪ Some were smack in the middle of neighborhoods.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smack

Smack \Smack\, n. [D. smak; akin to LG. smack, smak, Dan. smakke, G. schmacke, F. semaque.] (Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

Smack

Smack \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.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  3. To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. ``She smacks the silken thong.''
    --Young.

Smack

Smack \Smack\, adv. As if with a smack or slap. [Colloq.]

Smack

Smack \Smack\, n. a slang term for heroin. [slang]

Smack

Smack \Smack\, n. [OE. smak, AS. ssm?c taste, savor; akin to D. smaak, G. geschmack, OHG. smac; cf. Lith. smagus pleasant. Cf. Smack, v. i.]

  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.
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

    They felt the smack of this world.
    --Latimer.

  2. A small quantity; a taste.
    --Dryden.

  3. A loud kiss; a buss. ``A clamorous smack.''
    --Shak.

  4. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

  5. A quick, smart blow; a slap.
    --Johnson.

Smack

Smack \Smack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Smacking.] [OE. smaken to taste, have a taste, -- from the noun; cf. AS. smecan taste; akin to D. smaken, G. schmecken, OHG. smechen to taste, smach?n to have a taste (and, derived from the same source, G. schmatzen to smack the lips, to kiss with a sharp noise, MHG. smatzen, smackzeen), Icel. smakka to taste, Sw. smaka, Dan. smage. See 2d Smack, n.]

  1. To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

  2. To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.

    All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
    --Shak.

  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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smack

"a taste, flavor, savor" especially a slight flavor that suggests something, from Old English smæc "taste; scent, odor," from Proto-Germanic *smak- (cognates: Old Frisian smek, Middle Dutch smæck, Dutch smaak, Old High German smac, German Geschmack, Swedish smak, Danish smag), from a Germanic and Baltic root *smeg- meaning "to taste" (cognates: Lithuanian smaguriai "dainties," smagus "pleasing"). Meaning "a trace (of something)" is attested from 1530s.

smack

"heroin," 1942, American English slang, probably an alteration of schmeck "a drug," especially heroin (1932), from Yiddish schmeck "a sniff."

smack

"make a sharp noise with the lips," 1550s, probably of imitative origin (see smack (v.2)). With adverbial force, "suddenly, directly," from 1782; extended form smack-dab is attested from 1892, American English colloquial (slap-dab is from 1886).

smack

single-masted sailboat, 1610s, probably from Dutch or Low German smak "sailboat," perhaps from smakken "to fling, dash" (see smack (v.2)), perhaps so-called from the sound made by its sails. French semaque, Spanish zumaca, Italian semacca probably are Germanic borrowings.

smack

"to slap a flat surface with the hand," 1835, from smack (n.) in this sense; perhaps influenced by Low German smacken "to strike, throw," which is likely of imitative origin (compare Swedish smak "slap," Middle Low German smacken, Frisian smakke, Dutch smakken "to fling down," Lithuanian smagiu "to strike, knock down, whip").

smack

mid-13c., "to smell (something"); mid-14c., "to taste (something), perceive by taste" (transitive); late 14c. "to have a taste, taste of" (intransitive), from smack (n.1). Compare Old English smæccan "to taste," Old Frisian smakia Middle Dutch smaecken, Old High German smakken "have a savor, scent, or taste," German schmecken "taste, try, smell, perceive." Sometimes also smatch. Now mainly in verbal figurative use smacks of ... (first attested 1590s). "Commonly but erroneously regarded as identical with [ smack (n.2)], as if 'taste' proceeds from 'smacking the lips.'" [Century Dictionary]

smack

"smart, sharp sound made by the lips," 1560s, from smack (v.1). Meaning "a loud kiss" is recorded from c.1600. Meaning "sharp sound made by hitting something with the flat of the hand" is from c.1746.

Wiktionary
smack

Etymology 1 n. 1 A distinct flavor. 2 A slight trace of something; a smattering. 3 (context slang English) heroin. vb. 1 To indicate or suggest something. 2 To have a particular taste. Etymology 2

n. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a http://en.wikipedi

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    adv. As if with a smack or slap n. 1 A sharp blow; a slap. ''See also: spank.'' 2 A loud kiss. 3 A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip. v

  2. 1 To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound. 2 (context New Zealand English) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (US spank) 3 To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat. 4 To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.

WordNet
smack
  1. n. a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) [syn: slap]

  2. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth [syn: relish, flavor, flavour, 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 [syn: big H, hell dust, nose drops, thunder]

  5. an enthusiastic kiss [syn: smooch]

  6. the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand [syn: smacking, slap]

  7. adv. directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her" [syn: bang, slap, slapdash, bolt]

  8. v. deliver a hard blow to; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved" [syn: thwack]

  9. have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism" [syn: reek]

  10. have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "This tastes of nutmeg" [syn: taste]

  11. kiss lightly [syn: peck]

  12. eat noisily by smacking one's lips

Wikipedia
Smack (American band)

Smack is a Los Angeles pop/rock band formed by singer/guitarist Lantz L'Amour, current L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades, former and now current Blessings bassist Jamie Zimlin, and former Junkyard drummer Patrick Muzingo.

Smack (Finnish band)

Smack was a Finnish band, which was active 1982-1990. The band's original line-up consisted of singer Claude, guitarists Kartsa and Manchuria, bassist Cheri and drummer Kinde.

Smack

Smack(s) may refer to:

  • Slapping (strike), a broad stroke made with the open hand
  • Spanking, a form of corporal punishment
  • Heroin, a narcotic drug
  • Smack (ship), a small decked or half-decked vessel
  • Smack talk, the use of threatening or intentionally inflammatory language
  • A collective noun for a group of jellyfish
  • Honey Smacks, a breakfast cereal sometimes marketed simply as Smacks
Smack (Brazilian band)

Smack was a Brazilian post-punk band from São Paulo, formed in 1983 and characterized by its raw and experimental instrumentation heavily influenced by Gang of Four, Talking Heads, Os Mutantes and The Jam, among others.

The band ended in 1986, but reunited in 2005. It ceased activities definitely in 2015 after vocalist Sérgio Pamplona's death.

Smack (ship)

A smack was a traditional fishing boat used off the coast of Britain and the Atlantic coast of America for most of the 19th century and, in small numbers, up to the Second World War. Many larger smacks were originally cutter-rigged sailing boats until about 1865, when smacks had become so large that cutter main booms were unhandy. The smaller smacks retain the gaff cutter rig. The larger smacks were lengthened and re-rigged and new ketch-rigged smacks were built, but boats varied from port to port. Some boats had a topsail on the mizzen mast, while others had a bowsprit carrying a jib.

Large numbers smacks operated in fleets from ports in the UK such as Brixham, Grimsby and Lowestoft as well as at locations along the Thames Estuary. In England the sails were white cotton until a proofing coat was applied, usually after the sail was a few years old. This gave the sails its distinctive red ochre colour, which made them a picturesque sight in large numbers. Smacks were often rebuilt into steam boats in the 1950s.

Smack (software)

Smack (full name: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel) is a Linux kernel security module that protects data and process interaction from malicious manipulation using a set of custom mandatory access control (MAC) rules, with simplicity as its main design goal. It has been officially merged since the Linux 2.6.25 release, and was the main access control mechanism for the MeeGo mobile Operating System. It is also used to sandbox HTML5 web applications in the Tizen architecture, in the commercial Wind River Linux solutions for embedded device development, and in Philips Digital TV products.

Usage examples of "smack".

And smacked into a hard body, as the Argon deftly thwarted her attempt by shifting himself into her path.

The sight of the aviso heading flat out into the bay turned his stomach for a moment, since it smacked of impending danger.

Wind smacked him in the face and chest, clawing at him, snapping and whipping like a living thing, and for a horrible moment, Batman thought he was going to be torn in two, that the force would break his neck, that.

And then she playfully boxed his ear, at which he chased her around the biplane and gave her a hearty smack just below her own pretty ear.

And Blinky crammed his mouth with leaves until a smart smack on the nose from Mrs Koala made him remember his manners.

And Old Pete and Councillor Doveston and Bob the Bookie and Norman and Archroy looked on in horror as Neville stepped between his new bar staff and smacked each of them on the bottom.

Before the rain commenced, Bowie had heard sounds of the town, but now there was only the smacking of the wind-driven rain against the shocks of old wheat around him and its clatter on the stubbled earth.

But for all their burgeoning vileness, there was something about their spread that smacked of desperation.

Hearing these words, he came up to me, sneering, called me a coward, and gave me a smack on the face which almost stunned me.

So the smack was put about, and when she was moving slow through the haven again, Achanna sculled ashore in the little coggly punt.

He had called me Doofus and smacked me on the back of my head every day for fifteen years.

Willson and Stiles with hemoom prodoh encasement, lifting them and smacking them against the wall, like the others.

Cursing, the Eraser waved his arms but landed smack on top of its three-inch needles, shrieking like a train wreck in the making.

And smack dab in the middle of it was the wildest fae on any human continent, and by far the most dangerous.

France simply France, and the king of England simply England, smacks of feudalism, under which monarchy is an estate, property, not a public trust.