Definitions for smacks

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Spelling: [smak]

IPA: /smæk/

Smacks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in smacks (ackmss).

Definitions for smacks

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.

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 smacks

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 smacks

One thing to be strenuously avoided is anything that smacks of glorifying the act itself.

He winks, smacks his lips and frantically drains the go-cup.

"This smacks of Turkish rather than of European rule," said the youth.

To many of us, that smacks of censorship, the highest offense to our pride in self-publicity.

In the video, Solange smacks and kicks her brother-in-law while Beyonce DOESN'T EVEN FLINCH.

I envy you what smacks of a race, a name, an ancestry, a lineage.

About the only thing nearby that smacks of politics is an adjacent pop-up Halloween costume store.

I got blows and thumps and smacks and whacks and pinches and kicks from all sides.

The smacks pained, and the words "'Purim' presents" gnawed at my brain.

The smacks made her hands red, for as yet she was not up to the trick.