Smack

Quick meaning: Smack is a noun meaning A distinct flavor, especially if slight.

Meaning

A distinct flavor, especially if slight.

More Meanings

1. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
2. (Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
3. (transitive) To get the flavor of.
4. (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
5. (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
6. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
7. (slang, uncountable) Synonym of heroin.

Example Sentences

rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon

He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness.

Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.

He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.

Word Forms

• smacks
• smacking
• smacked

Synonyms for smack

Depending on context, synonyms include heroin, reek, relish, bang, bolt, savor.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slap, thwack, bang, slapdash, junk, smooch.

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