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What does "smack" mean?

Smack: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A small quantity; a taste. Dryden.
  2. 3.A loud kiss; a buss. "A clamorous smack." Shak.
  3. 4.A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
  4. 5.A quick, smart blow; a slap. Johnson.
  5. 6.As if with a smack or slap. [Colloq.]
  6. 7.To have a smack; to be tinctured with any particular taste.
  7. 8.To have or exhibit indications of the presence of any character or quality. All sects, all ages, smack of this vice. Shak.
  8. 9.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.
  9. 10.To make a noise by the separation of the lips after tasting anything.
  10. 11.To kiss with a sharp noise; to buss.
  11. 12.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.
  12. 13.To make a sharp noise by striking; to crack; as, to smack a whip. "She smacks the silken thong." Young.

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