0 past simple and past participle of smack
1 to hit someone or something forcefully with the flat inside part of your hand, producing a short, loud noise, especially as a way of punishing a child:
He understood that an adherence to old measures of money and weight smacked of support for old lines of political authority.
They lapped it up, and smacked their lips.
This smacked of trial in absentia and her husband would have none of it.
Not surprisingly, this did not turn out to be the case; and the whole project from the start had smacked somewhat of linguistic imperialism.
The hierarchy was prepared to lighten this canonical obligation in terms of external observances, but to forego it entirely would have smacked of defeatism.
Also, in an ecumenical age nobody who calls himself religious could take any possible pride in anything which divided the community—anything which smacked of sectariansim.
That system at least had the merit of some sort of fairness, but, unfortunately, fairness smacked of socialism.
After that length of time, to say that he must have another look smacked of procrastination.
