Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fishing boat sailing under various rigs, according to size, and often having a well used to transport the catch to market.
- noun A distinctive flavor or taste.
- noun A suggestion or trace.
- noun A small amount; a smattering.
- intransitive verb To have a distinctive flavor or taste. Used with of.
- intransitive verb To give an indication; be suggestive. Often used with of:
- intransitive verb To press together and open (the lips) quickly and noisily, as in eating or tasting.
- intransitive verb To kiss noisily.
- intransitive verb To strike sharply and with a loud noise.
- intransitive verb To make or give a smack.
- intransitive verb To collide sharply and noisily.
- noun The loud sharp sound of smacking.
- noun A noisy kiss.
- noun A sharp blow or slap.
- adverb With a smack.
- adverb Directly.
- noun Heroin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To have a taste; have a certain flavor; suggest a certain thing by its flavor.
- Hence, figuratively, to have a certain character or property, especially in a slight degree; suggest a certain character or quality: commonly with of.
- noun A taste or flavor; savor; especially, a slight flavor that suggests a certain thing; also, the sense of taste.
- noun Hence A flavor or suggestion of a certain quality.
- noun Scent; smell.
- noun A small quantity; a taste; a smattering.
- noun Synonyms Flavor, Savor, etc. (see
taste ), tang. - noun Touch, spice, dash, tinge.
- To smite or strike smartly and so as to produce a sharp sound; give a sharp blow to, especially with the inside of the hand or fingers; slap: as, to
smack one's cheek. - To cause (something) to emit a sharp sound by striking or slapping it with something else: as, he smacked the table with his fist.
- To part smartly so as to make a sharp sound: used chiefly of the lips.
- To kiss, especially in a coarse or noisy manner.
- To make a sharp sound by a smart parting of the lips, as after tasting something agreeable.
- To kiss so as to make a smart, sharp sound with the lips; kiss noisily.
- To come or go against anything with great force.
- noun A smart, sharp sound made by the lips, as in a hearty kiss, or as an expression of enjoyment after an agreeable taste; also, a similar sound made by the lash of a whip; a crack; a snap.
- noun A sharp, sudden blow, as with the flat of the hand; a slap.
- noun A loud kiss; a buss.
- In a sudden and direct or aggressive manner, as with a smack or slap; sharply; plump; straight.
- noun A slooprigged vessel formerly much used in the coasting and fishing trade.
- noun A fishing-vessel provided with a well in which the fish are kept alive; a fishing-smack.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
- adverb colloq. As if with a smack or slap.
- noun Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture. Also used figuratively.
- noun A small quantity; a taste.
- noun A loud kiss; a buss.
- noun A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- noun A quick, smart blow; a slap.
- noun slang a slang term for
heroin . - intransitive verb To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
- intransitive verb To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
- intransitive verb 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.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Bush started his term smack dab in the middle of a recession.
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Have you not been complaining of your health, and have you not been longing for what you call a smack of the country breeze?
The Woman in White 2003
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Have you not been complaining of your health, and have you not been longing for what you call a smack of the country breeze?
The Woman in White 1860
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Have you not been complaining of your health, and have you not been longing for what you call a smack of the country breeze?
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1856
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April 16th, 2010 10: 25 am ET what a moron. he uses our tax paying money for charities and his donations to his campaign i hope he keeps talkin smack as the tea party grows. only thank you we owe him is for the lack of jobs and big debt he created!
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Where your stash of smack is considered neither creative nor cool.
Can celebrities deal with airport security? John Crace 2010
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I wonder if Scott Brown has heard about this dude talkin smack about his mama ….
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YOU LIBS can't see the TRUTH if it hit you in smack in the face.
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His winery is in smack dab in the middle of the land of riesling, but he doesn't make any.
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Of course there are highly publicised stories of high profile cons being attacked i. e Huntly, but in the main, cons just want to get on with their sentence and get the hell out of there and if scoring some smack from a beastie helps dull the process then they WILL associate with them. on January 29, 2007 at 11: 02 am | Reply Notacriminal
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Did you know that a group of jellyfish is called a smack?
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skipvia commented on the word smack
A school of jellyfish
November 16, 2007
reesetee commented on the word smack
A single-masted sailing vessel, fore-and-aft rigged like a sloop or cutter, and usually of light burden, chiefly employed as a coaster or for fishing, and formerly as a tender to a ship of war.
December 18, 2007
dinkum commented on the word smack
WORD: smack
EXAMPLE of American Heritage Dictionary definition ' intransitive v. To give an indication; be suggestive. Often used with of: "an agenda that does not smack of compromise” ( Time). ' ---- >
' High-speed trading has made the financial world even more of a casino game, allowing traders to pick off minuscule price movements in just thousandths of a second . . . We live in an age when pigs really do fly . . . And it all smacks of manipulation. '
--- Al Lewis. "Caught in a Web". The Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2013.
September 24, 2013