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

1. noun. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.
2. intransitive verb. Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.
3. intransitive verb. A small quantity; a taste.
4. intransitive verb. A loud kiss; a buss.
5. intransitive verb. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
6. intransitive verb. A quick, smart blow; a slap.
7. adverb. As if with a smack or slap.
8. noun. To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
9. noun. To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality.
10. noun. 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.
11. noun. To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
12. transitive verb. To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
13. transitive 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.
14. transitive verb. To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip.
15. noun. the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

    Synonyms: slap, smacking

16. noun. an enthusiastic kiss

    Synonyms: smooch

17. noun. street names for heroin

    Synonyms: scag, skag, thunder

18. noun. a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
19. noun. the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

    Synonyms: flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, tang

20. noun. a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

    Synonyms: slap

21. verb. press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating
22. verb. deliver a hard blow to

    "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved"

    Synonyms: thwack

23. verb. kiss lightly

    Synonyms: peck

24. verb. have a distinctive or characteristic taste

    "This tastes of nutmeg"

    Synonyms: taste

25. verb. have an element suggestive (of something)

    "his speeches smacked of racism"

    "this passage smells of plagiarism"

    Synonyms: reek, smell

26. adverb. directly

    "he ran bang into the pole"

    "ran slap into her"

    Synonyms: bang, bolt, slap, slapdash

Synonyms

slap, smacking, smooch, scag, skag, thunder, flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, tang, thwack, peck, taste, reek, smell, bang, bolt, slapdash

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in smack:

macks

Common word forms

smacks, smacked, smacker, smackful, smacking

Words from these letters

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