Smack — Defs

01 n. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

1.
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.(Naut.)

02 n. Taste or flavor, esp. a slight taste or flavor; savor; tincture; as, a smack of bitter in the medicine. Also used figuratively.

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.
3.
A loud kiss; a buss.
4.
A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
5.
A quick, smart blow; a slap.

03 adv. As if with a smack or slap.

04 v. i. To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.

imp. & p. p. Smacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Smacking

1.
To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
2.
To have or exhibit and indication or suggestion of the presence of any character or quality; to have a taste, or flavor; -- used with of; as, a remark smacking of contempt.
“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.

05 v. t. To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.

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.

06 n. Same as heroin; -- a slang term.