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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smooch
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the semi-darkness, couples were smooching to sentimental love-songs.
▪ The sales manager and the boss's wife were smooching in full view of everyone.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
smooch

Smutch \Smutch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smutched; p. pr. & vb. n. Smutching.] To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal. [Written also smooch.]
--B. Jonson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smooch

1932, alteration of dialectal verb smouch "to kiss" (1570s), possibly imitative of the sound of kissing (compare German dialectal schmutzen "to kiss"). An earlier alteration produced smudge (v.) "to kiss, caress" (1844). Related: Smooched; smooching. As a noun by 1942.

Wiktionary
smooch

Etymology 1 alt. (context informal English) A kiss. n. (context informal English) A kiss. vb. (context informal English) To kiss. Etymology 2

vb. (alternative form of smutch English)

WordNet
smooch
  1. n. an enthusiastic kiss [syn: smack]

  2. v. snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others [syn: snog, spoon]

Usage examples of "smooch".

She winked one more time and went into her apartment, her lips forming a noisy smooch as she closed the door.

Well, so had she, come to that, but her smooching had been in Camberley where she had lived, pre-Peter but post parental divorce, after twenty-five years of marriage.

I would have hated to miss their smooching with Umlaut, because I knew him and smooched him some myself.

A couple of kids were smooching near the south perimeter behind the cafeteria.

George blubbers while smooching Karen's cheeks, oblivious to the scene he creates.

To make up for this self­ish thought, he called one of the talked-about new places o£ the mo­ment, a Cuban-themed bar-restaurant in Chelsea named Gio in honor of Dona Gioconda, an elderly diva whose star was shining brightly that Buena Vista summer and in whose languid smoke-trail of a voice all of old Havana came back to swaggering, swaying, seducing, smooching life.