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smack
smack is a 5-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, intransitive verb, adverb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
- 2intransitive verb
Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
- 3intransitive verb
A small quantity; a taste.
- 4intransitive verb
A loud kiss; a buss.
- 5intransitive verb
A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- 6intransitive verb
A quick, smart blow; a slap.
- 7adverb
As if with a smack or slap.
- 8noun
To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
- 9noun
To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
- 10noun
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.
- 11noun
To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
- 12transitive verb
To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
- 13transitive verb
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.
- 14transitive verb
To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.
- 15noun
the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
- 16noun
an enthusiastic kiss
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- 17noun
street names for heroin
- 18noun
a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
- 19noun
the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- 20noun
a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
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- 21verb
press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating
- 22verb
deliver a hard blow to
"The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved"
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- 23verb
kiss lightly
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- 24verb
have a distinctive or characteristic taste
"This tastes of nutmeg"
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- 25verb
have an element suggestive (of something)
"his speeches smacked of racism"
"this passage smells of plagiarism"
- 26adverb
directly
"he ran bang into the pole"
"ran slap into her"
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