Definitions for smacking

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smacking smack·ing

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IPA: /ˈsmæk ɪŋ/

Smacking is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 295 anagrams from letters in smacking (acgikmns).

Definitions for smacking

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.

adverb

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

adjective

1. smart, brisk, or strong, as a breeze.
2. Chiefly British Slang. smashing.

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 smacking

First recorded in 1585-95; smack² + -ing²

Examples for smacking

“Yelling and screaming and smacking me,” Thicke half-raps on the dark, paranoid track.

I liked that they all said, ‘Huddle up dudes,’ and one would be smacking the other in the head, and it was really funny.

What about the law against the IRS smacking Tea Party-type nonprofits over the head with a two-by-four?

Lantier, who felt gay, was sucking his barley-sugar, and smacking his lips.

"It has a twang of the wine cask in it," said one, smacking his lips.

"Nothing is better before soup," declared Boche, smacking his lips.

She did a pretty good job at first, but she did get a little bit hurt by smacking her bow arm with the string.

We can none of us go about smacking innocent folks just for the fun of it.

A car had swerved out of control, plowing into two other cars, then smacking into several people on the sidewalk.

The porter could hardly refrain, from smacking his lips with an air of relish as he said this.