2HIT[always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] to hit something hard against something else so that it makes a shortloudnoise 〔用某物〕啪的一聲打
He smacked the money down on the table and walked out.
他啪的一聲把錢扔在桌上就走了出去。
3smack your lipsHBHHUNGRY/STARVINGto make a short loudnoise with your lips before or after you eat or drink something to show that it is good 出聲地咂嘴唇〔表示味道好〕
He drained his glass and smacked his lips appreciatively.
他一口氣喝光了杯裏的東西,滿意地咂咂嘴。
Examples from the Corpus
smack your lips• Cranston snored gently like a child, muttering now and again and smacking his lips.• Shove his face into his own shit, they were learning, and he will devour it, smacking his lips.• The young one smacked his lips.• He smacked his lips and stroked his moustache with surprise.• She begins cackling, smacking her lips, like a child thinking of a turkey dinner.• Granny Weatherwax smacked her lips, like some one emerging from a very deep sleep.• The woman seemed to be smacking her lips over every word.• The chimpanzee then pulls out the grassstem and picks off the termites with its teeth, smacking its lips with pleasure.
4.British EnglishBrE informalHIT to hit someone hard with your closed hand 用拳猛擊SYN punch
5smack of somethingphrasal verbphr vif a situation smacks of something unpleasant, it seems to involve that thing 帶有〔令人不快〕的意味
To me, the whole thing smacks of a cover-up.
在我看來,整件事有點藏藏掖掖的感覺。
6smack somebody upphrasal verbphr v informalto hit someone hard many times with your hand 用手痛打,狠掴
Don’t make me come over there and smack you up.
别惹我過來抽你一頓。
Examples from the Corpus
smack up• The first task is to smack the ball up the ramp and enter the rollercoaster ride.
smack in the mouth/face/gob• Once again, she hadn't seen it coming; another smack in the face from an unexpectedsource.• Steve looked as if he'd been smacked in the face with a writ.• Once Williams was smacked in the face by a throw in an internationalgame, breaking her nose.
smack3adverbadv informal
1EXACTexactly or directly in the middle of something, in front of something etc 恰好,準確地,不偏不倚地
smack in the middle/in front of something etc
There was a hole smack in the middle of the floor.
It’s smack dab in the middle of an earthquake zone.
它就在震區的正中心。
2HIT/BUMP INTOif something goes smack into something, it hits it with a lot of force 猛烈地,砰的一聲〔碰擊某物〕
The car ran smack into the side of the bus.
小汽車砰的一聲撞到了公共汽車的側面。
Examples from the Corpus
smack• It came to restsmack against the mountain two mileswest of Morrisonville.• Some were smack in the middle of neighborhoods.• I was smack in the middle of this interestingwar.• I ran smack into it on Thursday.• I drovesmack into the side of the garage.
Originsmack1
(1400-1500) Perhaps from Middle Dutchsmacken“to hit”. smack of (1300-1400) From smack“taste”((11-21 centuries)), from Old Englishsmæc