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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

... a cold draught in a great man's doorway, before she had time to spend her couple of whites—it seemed a cruel way to carry on the world. Two whites would have taken such a little while to squander; and yet it would have been one more good taste in the mouth, one more smack of the lips, before the devil got the soul, and the body was left to birds and vermin. He would like to use all his tallow before the light was blown out ...

— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

... Pool. For very mischief they had rubbed the fur of the Field Mice babies the wrong way and had blown a fat green fly right out of Grandfather Frog's mouth just as his lips came together with a smack. Now they were safely tucked in bed behind the Purple Hills, and so they missed the midnight feast at the foot of ...

— Mother West Wind's Children • Thornton W. Burgess

... of the scene of his misfortune, the steading of the Blairs, might well have been that nearest to "Silence Farm." It is faithfully described, the scenes about the little home, whose owner lies dead, having the very smack of realism. In the latter part of the story the scene shifts to the coast and the tang of the story turns Gaelic and unreal. Was it thus, I wonder, always to the imagination of William Sharp, Lowland ...

— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt

... old shady trees, and as they narrowed to a point the gleam of two tiny estuaries appeared on either side. He could not see the final cape, but he saw the sea beyond it, flawed with catspaws, gold in the afternoon sun, and on it a small herring smack flopping listless sails. ...

— Huntingtower • John Buchan

... smooth, rounded head of the thighbone, moist with glairy fluid, fits so perfectly into the smooth, rounded cavity which receives it, that it holds firmly by suction, or atmospheric pressure. It takes a hard pull to draw it out after all the ligaments are cut, and then it comes with a smack like a tight cork from a bottle. Holding in this way by the close apposition of two polished surfaces, the lower extremity swings freely forward and backward like a pendulum, if we give it a chance, as is ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various

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