smack

  • 21smack — index beat (strike) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 22smack — [smak] n. m. ÉTYM. 1875; mot angl. d origine néerlandaise. ❖ ♦ Mar. Anciennt. Grand sloop à voile de fortune qui naviguait sur les côtes de Hollande et d Écosse …

    Encyclopédie Universelle

  • 23smack of — (something) to have some of the characteristics or qualities of something. The book smacks of having been written by a committee rather than an author with a point of view. Usage notes: often said about a negative characteristic or quality, as in …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 24smack — (izg. smȅk) m DEFINICIJA pom. 1. pov. jedrenjak iz 18. st. s dva jarbola 2. engleski i američki ribarski brod, više od 5 t nosivosti ETIMOLOGIJA engl. ← nizoz. smak …

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  • 25smack — n 1 *taste, flavor, savor, tang, relish 2 *touch, suggestion, suspicion, soupçon, tincture, tinge, shade, spice, dash, vein, strain, streak …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 26smack — smack1 [smæk] v [T] [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: Perhaps from Middle Dutch smacken to hit . smack of 1300 1400 From smack taste (11 21 centuries), from Old English smAc] 1.) to hit someone, especially a child, with your open hand in order to punish… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 27smack — smack1 [ smæk ] verb 1. ) transitive to hit someone with your flat hand or a flat object: I don t believe it s right to smack children when they re being naughty. a ) transitive BRITISH INFORMAL to hit someone with your FIST (=closed hand): He… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 28smack — I UK [smæk] / US verb Word forms smack : present tense I/you/we/they smack he/she/it smacks present participle smacking past tense smacked past participle smacked * [transitive] to hit someone with your flat hand or a flat object I don t believe… …

    English dictionary

  • 29smack — 1 verb (T) 1 to hit a child with your hand in order to punish them: To bed now, or I ll smack your bottom! 2 to hit something against something else so that it makes a short loud noise: smack sth against/into etc: He smacked his fist against his… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 30smack — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ firm (BrE), good, hard ▪ light ▪ loud, resounding ▪ He landed with a loud smack …

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