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Definition of "smacking" [smack•ing]

  • Brisk; vigorous; spanking: a smacking breeze. (adjective)

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 "smacking" in a sentence
  • "But when we remember that it contains such a mass of valuable historical material, from the pen of a son of General Paez, aide-de-camp to his father, and an eyewitness of, or actor in, some of the bloody scenes of a civil war, and that even the description of herdsman's life is filled with deeply interesting scientific records of the natural history and botany of our southern continent, it seems strange that such a volume could appear under a title smacking of the veriest book-making for the cheap Western market."
  • "Instapundit focuses myopically on supporting conservatives and conservative positions (athough, as someone else aptly observed, he seems at least as interested in smacking liberals as in anything else)."
  • "So it makes sense to me when we're talking about devolution of laws to do with criminal justice services that the ability to change the law on smacking is brought into that."