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vb. (context informal English) To beat up physically.
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Smack Up is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Jack Sheldon, Pete Jolly, Jimmy Bond and Frank Butler.
Leonard Feather's sleeve notes include two quotes by Pepper which throw light on his approach to playing jazz:
"Knowing the relationships of chords to one another, how they fit into sequences and how you build on them, all reminds you that there's an important relationship between mathematics and music." "The way a man walks, the way he talks, the timbre of his voice, the cadences of his speech, his little variations in phrasing a thought — all have so much to do with individuality. The same thing is true of a man's playing in jazz... his tone, the way his sound moves, his feeling for time. That's why jazz is consistently fascinating. You could ask six guys to play an identical solo, but when you heard the results, you'd hear six different solos."The album consists of compositions written by saxophonists.
Usage examples of "smack up".
He was smack up against another impossibility and was trying to study it out, Jonathan couldn't contain himself.
Some days hence it would flow past Seaside and run smack up against old ocean.
I was being brought smack up against everything I'd put aside as a child.
That's orange country to the south but to the north it's as bare as hell's back yard and smack up against the hills there's a cyanide plant where they make the stuff for fumigation.
Thats orange country to the south but to the north its as bare as hells back yard and smack up against the hills theres a cyanide plant where they make the stuff for fumigation.
We saw the paradox most vividly acted out in Iran - fabulous wealth, rapid mindless industrialization, the growth of the most vulgar and seductive of Western values, all coming smack up against the rock of Islam, which promised purity, a return to the strict values of the family, the simple life, and a selfless devotion to Allah.
Under the differing rhythms of their footsteps it bucked out of synchronization and was as like as not to suddenly smack up jarringly at their boots as they put them down, or to drop away under their steps so that they stumbled.
With a sigh, she turned for the castle, only to come smack up against Quinn's broad chest.