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Definition of "smack-dab" [smack-dab]

  • Slang Squarely; directly: stood smack-dab in the middle of the freeway. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "smack-dab" in a sentence
  • "My husband and I are smack-dab in the middle of buying a house."
  • "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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