smack: Meaning and Definition of
smack
Pronunciation: (smak), [key] — n.
- a taste or flavor, esp. a slight flavor distinctive or suggestive of something: The chicken had just a smack of garlic.
- a trace, touch, or suggestion of something.
- a taste, mouthful, or small quantity.
—v.i. - to have a taste, flavor, trace, or suggestion: Your politeness smacks of condescension.
smack
Pronunciation: (smak), [key] — v.t.
- to strike sharply, esp. with the open hand or a flat object.
- to drive or send with a sharp, resounding blow or stroke: to smack a ball over a fence.
- to close and open (the lips) smartly so as to produce a sharp sound, often as a sign of relish, as in eating.
- to kiss with or as with a loud sound.
—v.i. - to smack the lips.
- to collide, come together, or strike something forcibly.
- to make a sharp sound as of striking against something.
—n. - a sharp, resounding blow, esp. with something flat.
- a smacking of the lips, as in relish or anticipation.
- a resounding or loud kiss.
—adv.
smack
Pronunciation: (smak), [key] — n.
- a fishing vessel, esp. one having a well for keeping the catch alive.
- any of various small, fully decked, fore-and-aft-rigged vessels used for trawling or coastal trading.
smack
Pronunciation: (smak), [key] — n. Slang.
- heroin.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.