smack
noun/smæk/
/smæk/
- [countable] (especially British English) a sharp hit given with your open hand, especially to a child as a punishment
- You'll get a smack on your backside if you're not careful.
- He longed to land her a good smack in the face.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- firm
- good
- hard
- …
- give somebody
- land (somebody)
- get
- …
- with a smack
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- [countable] (informal) a hard hit given with a closed hand synonym punch
- a smack on the jaw
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- firm
- good
- hard
- …
- give somebody
- land (somebody)
- get
- …
- with a smack
- [countable, usually singular] a short loud sound
- She closed the ledger with a smack.
- She brought her hand down on the water with a smack.
- [countable] (informal) a loud kiss
- a smack on the lips/cheek
- [uncountable] (slang) the drug heroin
- smack addicts
- [countable] (British English) a small fishing boatTopics Transport by waterc2
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 4 mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘part (one's lips) noisily’): from Middle Dutch smacken, of imitative origin; compare with German schmatzen ‘eat or kiss noisily’. noun sense 5 1940s: probably an alteration of Yiddish shmek ‘a sniff’. noun sense 6 early 17th cent.: from Dutch smak, of unknown ultimate origin.
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