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Definition of spank verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

spank

verb
 
/spæŋk/
 
/spæŋk/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they spank
 
/spæŋk/
 
/spæŋk/
he / she / it spanks
 
/spæŋks/
 
/spæŋks/
past simple spanked
 
/spæŋkt/
 
/spæŋkt/
past participle spanked
 
/spæŋkt/
 
/spæŋkt/
-ing form spanking
 
/ˈspæŋkɪŋ/
 
/ˈspæŋkɪŋ/
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  1. spank somebody/something to hit somebody, especially a child, several times on their bottom as a punishment
    • I used to get beaten and spanked a lot when I was a kid.
    • She says she’s never spanked her children.
    compare smackTopics Life stagesc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySpank is used with these nouns as the object:
    • bottom
    See full entry
    Word Originearly 18th cent.: perhaps imitative.
See spank in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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