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: --
On the previous occasion when the amendment was opposed, it smacked of the feeling that it was opposed merely for the sake of opposition.
Every time we have been smitten on the one cheek and have turned the other cheek they have smacked us on that cheek even harder.
There was a gross miscarriage of justice at my expense when a security guard smacked me in the mouth.
That is a big step forward, particularly for people such as myself, who have had their hands smacked time and again for criticising judges.
He was smacked across the face, he says, and he did not know what it was about.
She said that she was smacked by her mum, who was into keep fit and therefore smacked her quite hard.
I have two children, one of 15 and the other of 12, and neither of them has ever been smacked.
After that length of time, to say that he must have another look smacked of procrastination.
