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Definition of "smack" []

  • To press together and open (the lips) quickly and noisily, as in eating or tasting. (verb-transitive)
  • To kiss noisily. (verb-transitive)
  • To strike sharply and with a loud noise. (verb-transitive)
  • To make or give a smack. (verb-intransitive)
  • To collide sharply and noisily: The ball smacked against the side of the house. (verb-intransitive)

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" in a sentence
  • "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."