Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To press together and open (the lips) quickly and noisily, as in eating or tasting.
- v. To kiss noisily.
- v. To strike sharply and with a loud noise.
- v. To make or give a smack.
- v. To collide sharply and noisily: The ball smacked against the side of the house.
- n. The loud sharp sound of smacking.
- n. A noisy kiss.
- n. A sharp blow or slap.
- adv. With a smack: fell smack on her head.
- adv. Directly: "We were smack in the middle of another controversy about a public man's personal life” ( Ellen Goodman).
- n. A distinctive flavor or taste.
- n. A suggestion or trace.
- n. A small amount; a smattering.
- v. To have a distinctive flavor or taste. Used with of.
- v. To give an indication; be suggestive. Often used with of: "an agenda that does not smack of compromise” ( Time).
- n. A fishing boat sailing under various rigs, according to size, and often having a well used to transport the catch to market.
- n. Slang Heroin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To have a taste; have a certain flavor; suggest a certain thing by its flavor.
- Hence, figuratively, to have a certain character or property, especially in a slight degree; suggest a certain character or quality: commonly with of.
- n. A taste or flavor; savor; especially, a slight flavor that suggests a certain thing; also, the sense of taste.
- n. Hence A flavor or suggestion of a certain quality.
- n. Scent; smell.
- n. A small quantity; a taste; a smattering.
- n. Synonyms Flavor, Savor, etc. (see taste), tang.
- n. Touch, spice, dash, tinge.
- To smite or strike smartly and so as to produce a sharp sound; give a sharp blow to, especially with the inside of the hand or fingers; slap: as, to smack one's cheek.
- To cause (something) to emit a sharp sound by striking or slapping it with something else: as, he smacked the table with his fist.
- To part smartly so as to make a sharp sound: used chiefly of the lips.
- To kiss, especially in a coarse or noisy manner.
- To make a sharp sound by a smart parting of the lips, as after tasting something agreeable.
- To kiss so as to make a smart, sharp sound with the lips; kiss noisily.
- To come or go against anything with great force.
- n. A smart, sharp sound made by the lips, as in a hearty kiss, or as an expression of enjoyment after an agreeable taste; also, a similar sound made by the lash of a whip; a crack; a snap.
- n. A sharp, sudden blow, as with the flat of the hand; a slap.
- n. A loud kiss; a buss.
- In a sudden and direct or aggressive manner, as with a smack or slap; sharply; plump; straight.
- n. A slooprigged vessel formerly much used in the coasting and fishing trade.
- n. A fishing-vessel provided with a well in which the fish are kept alive; a fishing-smack. Smacks are either sailing vessels or steamers. They are chiefly market-boats, and in the United States are most numerous on the south coast of New England.
Wiktionary
- n. A distinct flavour.
- n. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- n. heroin.
- n. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
- n. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- n. A loud kiss.
- v. To indicate or suggest something.
- v. To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.
- v. To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, in expectation of a treat.
- adv. As if with a smack or slap
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
- n. Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture. Also used figuratively.
- n. A small quantity; a taste.
- n. A loud kiss; a buss.
- n. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- n. A quick, smart blow; a slap.
- adv. As if with a smack or slap.
- v. To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
- v. To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
- v. 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.
- v. To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
- v. To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
- v. 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.
- v. To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack.
- n. a slang term for heroin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
- n. street names for heroin
- v. kiss lightly
- v. deliver a hard blow to
- adv. directly.
- v. press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating
- n. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- n. an enthusiastic kiss
- n. a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
- n. a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
- v. have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- v. have an element suggestive (of something)
Etymologies
- Perhaps of Middle Flemish origin, or perhaps of imitative origin.Middle English, from Old English smæc.Dutch or Low German smak, from smakken, to fling, dash.Probably variant of smeck, from Yiddish shmek, a sniff, swell, from shmekn, to sniff, smell, from Middle High German smecken, smacken, to smell, taste, from Old High German smac, smell, taste.
Examples
“Bush started his term smack dab in the middle of a recession.”
“Have you not been complaining of your health, and have you not been longing for what you call a smack of the country breeze?”
“Where your stash of smack is considered neither creative nor cool.”
“I wonder if Scott Brown has heard about this dude talkin smack about his mama ….”
“YOU LIBS can't see the TRUTH if it hit you in smack in the face.”
“April 16th, 2010 10: 25 am ET what a moron. he uses our tax paying money for charities and his donations to his campaign i hope he keeps talkin smack as the tea party grows. only thank you we owe him is for the lack of jobs and big debt he created!”
“His winery is in smack dab in the middle of the land of riesling, but he doesn't make any.”
“Of course there are highly publicised stories of high profile cons being attacked i. e Huntly, but in the main, cons just want to get on with their sentence and get the hell out of there and if scoring some smack from a beastie helps dull the process then they WILL associate with them. on January 29, 2007 at 11: 02 am | Reply Notacriminal”
“Well apparently Miss Snark, one of my favorite blogs, has given this title a smack in the jaw.”
“Stop talkin 'smack about me, or I might have to get busy with a tire-iron up in here.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘smack’.
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 168 more...
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 241 more...
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gangster
random gangster lingo.
( randomness )right chea, swagga, chinga, slams, blitzy, earf, manor, code name, rekkid, weight, feather, kong and 298 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( descriptive, randomness )crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 167 more...
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word heroin
Words that are a rush both to look at and to say.
smack, incarnadine, expiate, cutty sark, travesty, dona nobis pacem, syllabub, incandescent, firmament, zanzibar, fiasco, turbulent and 8 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 86 more...
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animal group
Names for Groups of Animals.
swarm, herd, flock, group, pack, school, shoal, click, gang, army, colony, tribe and 37 more...
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The Kissing List
kiss, osculate, peck, butterfly, french, cataglottis, soul kiss, deep kiss, air kiss, Yankee dime, smooch, smack and 24 more...

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