Definitions for smack

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Spelling: [smak]

IPA: /smæk/

Smack is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in smack (ackms).

Definitions for smack

noun

1. a taste or flavor, especially a slight flavor distinctive or suggestive of something:
2. a trace, touch, or suggestion of something.
3. a taste, mouthful, or small quantity.
4. a sharp, resounding blow, especially with something flat.
5. a smacking of the lips, as in relish or anticipation.
6. a resounding or loud kiss.
7. Eastern U.S. a fishing vessel, especially one having a well for keeping the catch alive.
8. British. any of various small, fully decked, fore-and-aft-rigged vessels used for trawling or coastal trading.
9. heroin.
10. Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
11. David Bremner [brem-ner] /ˈbrɛm nər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1906, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1899–1903.
12. Fletcher ("Smack") 1898–1952, U.S. jazz pianist, arranger, and bandleader.
13. a city in NW Kentucky, on the Ohio River.
14. a city in SE Nevada, near Las Vegas.
15. a city in N North Carolina.
16. a town in E Texas.

adverb

1. suddenly and violently:
2. directly; straight:

Verb phrases

1. smack down, Slang. to humble (an arrogant person); rebuke or criticize severely.

verb (used with object)

1. to strike sharply, especially with the open hand or a flat object.
2. to drive or send with a sharp, resounding blow or stroke:
3. to close and open (the lips) smartly so as to produce a sharp sound, often as a sign of relish, as in eating.
4. to kiss with or as with a loud sound.

verb (used without object)

1. to have a taste, flavor, trace, or suggestion:
2. to smack the lips.
3. to collide, come together, or strike something forcibly.
4. to make a sharp sound as of striking against something.

Origin of smack

before 1000; (noun) Middle English smacke, Old English smæc; cognate with Middle Low German smak, German Geschmack taste; (v.) Middle English smacken to perceive by taste, have a (specified)

Examples for smack

Yes, Hillary Clinton talked some smack on Barack Obama to Jeff Goldberg in that interview.

My eyes ached and my lips prinkled with the smack of the powder.

To the uninitiated, this might smack of poor taste and inappropriate timing.

Now, they are smack dab in the middle of a GOP primary in Mississippi.

His brother Sidronio immediately took over, and the Windy City reported no shortage of smack.

It's wrong of them to smack her, for she will never put up with it.

The deck of the smack below promised to mash the American into a pulp.

I can't; last time I saw him he said when he caught me again he'd smack my head.

She called him her "slapjack" and would tell him to come and have his smack!

In the SMU study it was found that children lasted about 10 minutes after a smack before they started misbehaving again.