smack 1 (sm ăk)
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v. smacked, smack·ing, smacks v.tr.1. To press together and open (the lips) quickly and noisily, as in eating or tasting. 2. To kiss noisily. 3. To strike sharply and with a loud noise. v.intr.1. To make or give a smack. 2. To collide sharply and noisily: The ball smacked against the side of the house. n.1. The loud sharp sound of smacking. 2. A noisy kiss. 3. A sharp blow or slap. adv.1. With a smack: fell smack on her head. 2. Directly: "We were smack in the middle of another controversy about a public man's personal life" (Ellen Goodman).
[Perhaps of Middle Flemish origin, or perhaps of imitative origin.] |