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Etymologies
- smack1 + dab1, with a sudden contact. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My husband and I are smack-dab in the middle of buying a house.”
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“Thus being smack-dab in the middle of it all was recommended by one of the locals where Mexican tourists stay at a price of about 30-35 dollars per night with 24/7 enclosed guarded security parking.”
“But it will not agree to a contiguous West Bank/Gaza Palestinian state, as is obvious from its demand that the mega-settlement of Ariel, smack-dab in the middle of the West Bank, become part of Israel.”
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“Our neighbourhood was more or less smack-dab in the middle of the mess, so while we didn't get the funnel clouds we sure did get a healthy dose of the wet and windy!”
“As Art's world becomes increasingly tangled with theirs, he finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a web of secrets and lies - a web with intimate connections to his own strange past.”
“His latest project is a big house on the corner of Wales Avenue, smack-dab in the middle of Toronto's Kensington Market.”
“Which, by the way is shown smack-dab in the middle of a map of the United States on her Web site.”
“Fleeing south, he ran smack-dab into me and my Orphans—just in time for us to kill his pursuers.”
“This week, we're focusing on people living smack-dab in the middle of the middle class.”
“Right now your lips and tongue and gums are smack-dab at the center of attention.”
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
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2012-12-12
storey, smack-dab, asphalt, demolish, outskirt, approach, lot
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