<adv.all> he ran bang into the pole ran slap into her
Smack \Smack\, n. [D. smak; akin to LG. smack, smak, Dan. smakke, G. schmacke, F. semaque.] (Naut.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
Smack \Smack\, n. [OE. smak, AS. ssm?c taste, savor; akin to D. smaak, G. geschmack, OHG. smac; cf. Lith. smagus pleasant. Cf. {Smack}, v. i.] 1. Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
So quickly they have taken a smack in covetousness. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
They felt the smack of this world. --Latimer.
2. A small quantity; a taste. --Dryden.
3. A loud kiss; a buss. ``A clamorous smack.'' --Shak.
4. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
5. A quick, smart blow; a slap. --Johnson.
Smack \Smack\, v. t. 1. To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
2. To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting.
Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish. --Sir W. Scott.
3. To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. ``She smacks the silken thong.'' --Young.
Smack \Smack\, adv. As if with a smack or slap. [Colloq.]
Smack \Smack\, n. a slang term for {heroin}. [slang] [PJC]
Smack \Smack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smacked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smacking}.] [OE. smaken to taste, have a taste, -- from the noun; cf. AS. smecan taste; akin to D. smaken, G. schmecken, OHG. smechen to taste, smach?n to have a taste (and, derived from the same source, G. schmatzen to smack the lips, to kiss with a sharp noise, MHG. smatzen, smackzeen), Icel. smakka to taste, Sw. smaka, Dan. smage. See 2d {Smack}, n.] 1. To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
2. To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
All sects, all ages, smack of this vice. --Shak.
3. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate; to kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
4. To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
Equally, building new airports runs smack into environmental lobbies. The CAA's answer is to put forward proposals which go some way towards creating the conditions for effective competition but also stand a chance of being politically acceptable.
But the Circuit City chain is already so convinced about the future of home theater that it has put home-theater demonstration rooms smack in the middle of its new Houston "superstores."
This time, "we happen to lie smack dab where you want to be to see the whole darn thing, and it will be a spectacular sight." The East Coast will have the best view of the eclipse, which is expected to turn the moon orange or blood-red at its peak.
The sudden need to house more returning troops has run smack into a national shortage of civilian apartments and homes, retired Maj. Gen.
KIC 1, presumably aimed at a huge underground structure beneath the Jago River delta, is smack in the middle of that strip.
To make the most of such ads, companies want to run them smack dab in the middle of programs the entertainers star in, or at least as close as possible to the shows.
Two days of tracking the spacecraft showed that a difficult course correction Monday had put Voyager "smack dab in the middle" of the path navigators wanted it to follow, said Norman Haynes, Voyager project manager.
That might smack of being anti-veteran.
Several others lower down the league, however, smack somewhat of the kinky.
John Dale "Johnny" Sylvester, who became the most famous little sick boy in America after Babe Ruth promised to smack a World Series homer for him _ and hit three _ has died 63 years later.
To some, its actions smack of tampering with a congressional witness.
In 1965-66, smack amid the record-long expansion, the level of activity within the economy's agricultural sector fell sharply.
"Floridians will get one of the clearest views because it will be smack dab over our heads just before sunrise," Cooke said.
"You're just like us, just like us," she said, and planted a big smack on Mrs. Himpel's cheek while Tanja made faces behind her.
On a midweek visit to the state, the majority leader stops for coffee in Flatwoods, a town of 400 people along Interstate 79, smack in the middle of the state.
The plant is meant to serve the dining tables of Europe, an idea that runs smack against the American love affair with the horse.
Does this outrageous offer by the commissioner smack of a personal vendetta?
Comments by Mr Graham Hearne, chairman and chief executive, that it was necessary to be one of the 'big boys' smack of empire building.