Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To slap on the buttocks with a flat object or with the open hand, as for punishment.
- intransitive verb To move briskly or spiritedly.
- noun A slap on the buttocks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sounding blow with the open hand or something flat, especially upon the buttocks.
- To move with a quick springing step between a trot and a gallop; move quickly and with spirit. See
spanking . - To strike with the open hand, or with something flat and hard; slap with force on the buttocks.
- To urge by slapping or striking; impel forcibly; drive; produce some specified effect upon by spanking or slapping.
- To pound, beat, or slap the water in sailing, as a boat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
- intransitive verb To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.
- noun A blow with the open hand; a slap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To beat, smack or slap a person's
buttocks , with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture or form of sexual interaction. - verb transitive To soundly
defeat , totrounce . - verb intransitive To
move rapidly . - noun An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a
smack ,swat orslap . - noun A
slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
- noun a slap with the flat of the hand
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I find that when you are a good behavior manager in general, the need to spank is minimal.
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He is just as bad and stuck in the authoritarian rut because he doesn't get more creative in his methodology than to advocate (strongly as in blah-blah-blah, the Bible commands you spank, which is not true,) draconian parenting.
adventures in mercy 2009
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(I don't like to say "spank" - it's hitting, beating.
Women's Space 2008
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And they "spank" with nightsticks, tasers and guns.
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It will be necessary to "spank" the Palin/Beck/Limbaugh/Drudge forces back into the submission of reason.
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Peyton Manning will then 'spank' Drew Brees: Now if they just made half-and-half jerseys...
Sad Week Molly Daniels 2010
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It will be necessary to "spank" the Palin/Beck/Limbaugh/Drudge forces back into the submission of reason.
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But there's a deeply ingrained part of my mind and my libido that inevitably gets turned on when I hear the word "spank," that starts to conjure erotic images and stories.
Boing Boing 2008
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Let's REMOVE the word "spank" from our vocabulary.
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Use our Spineless Citations to "spank" the political wimps who aided them by voting for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment.
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While today there are seemingly endless ways to consume porn — from Pornhub to audio erotica — spank banks are still alive and well and being compiled in all sorts of creative ways. From alt Twitters to an entirely separate device, seven people graciously told me about the digital homes for their masturbation fodder.
7 people describe what they keep in their 'spank bank' Anna Iovine 2020
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Spank bank - It's what I know it as. Pictures of my Wife have always been know as a spank bank to us. Late 50's, nope. Mid 20's. Don't know what i can attribute to that, but I have read a lot of Playboy in my past.
My spank bank is offensive to my wife FinagleWanger32 2025
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Starship Troopers saw her taking on aliens, The World Is Not Enough saw her taking on James Bond, and Wild Things saw her taking on Neve Campbell in a swimming pool in a scene that went right into every Gen-Xer’s spank bank, regardless of their gender or sexual orientation.
Denise Richards Is Ready to Be Asked Back on Housewives Brian Moylan 2025
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Also don't have pics of my exes. I also never realised anyone used the term spank bank to mean physical pictures. I've only ever used it to mean sexy memories.
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