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noun

Smack n. (Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

Smack n.

1.

Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively. "So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness." "They felt the smack of this world."

2.

A small quantity; a taste.

3.

A loud kiss; a buss. "A clamorous smack."

4.

A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

5.

A quick, smart blow; a slap.

Smack n. Same as heroin; a slang term. (slang)

verb

Smack v. t.

1.

To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

2.

To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting. "Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish."

3.

To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. "She smacks the silken thong."

Smack v. i. (past & past part. smacked; pres. part. smacking)

1.

To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

2.

To have or exhibit and indication or suggestion of the presence of any character or quality; to have a taste, or flavor; used with of; as, a remark smacking of contempt. " All sects, all ages, smack of this vice."

3.

To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

4.

To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.

adverb

Smack adv. As if with a smack or slap. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Smack'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smack" Quotes from Famous Books

... understood him rightly) by way of rent. We talked a long time about one thing and another. He had been south as far as the Indian River country, but was glad to be back again in Tallahassee, where he was born. I asked him about the road, how far it went. "They tell me it goes smack to St. Augustine," he replied; "I ain't tried it." It was an unlikely story, it seemed to me, but I was assured afterward that he was right; that the road actually runs across the country from Tallahassee to St. Augustine, a distance of about two hundred miles. With company of ...

— A Florida Sketch-Book • Bradford Torrey

... Moti Guj down to the river, and Moti Guj lay on his side luxuriously in the shallows, while Deesa went over him with a coir-swab and a brick. Moti Guj never mistook the pounding blow of the latter for the smack of the former that warned him to get up and turn over on the other side. Then Deesa would look at his feet, and examine his eyes, and turn up the fringes of his mighty ears in case of sores or budding ophthalmia. ...

— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling

... hanging—often, indeed, only a rhetorical tub thrown out prudentially to the popular whale, who might not be quite content to hear them talk of hanging only on one side: but the hanging of the Abolitionists, there is no mistaking their feelings about that; there is a hearty smack of malignant relish on their lips when they ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... came a quick step, thumping the boardwalk in a rhythm she would have recognized but for its allegrity. The gate was opened with a sweep that brought a shriek from its old rheumatic hinge, and was permitted to swing shut with an unheeded smack. Ellaphine feared it was somebody coming with the haste that bad news inspires. Something awful had happened to Eddie! Her knees could not lift her to face the evil tidings. She dared not turn ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... outside which so often accompanies it; and his diction, being on a level with his themes, never offends that fine detecting spiritual taste which instinctively takes offence when spiritual things are viewed through unspiritual moods and clothed in words which smack of the senses. Combine all his characteristics, his intrepidity of disposition and intellect, his deep experience of religious truth, the sad earnestness of his faith, his penetration of thought, his direct, executive expression, and the beauty ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various

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