0 present 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:
This appeared to have played an important role in the cessation of less helpful parenting practices such as shouting, smacking and threatening.
Would not a really good smacking be the best thing?
One could barely hear the evidence being given for the sound of lips smacking in anticipation.
Because of the defence of reasonable chastisement, smacking has been too easy.
It is an archaic custom, smacking a little of the eighteenth century, and to some extent it impedes the taking of evidence overseas.
That is a smacking great increase, amounting to £150 million.
By making them wait for this increase they are smacking the old people where it hurts them most.
There are a variety of views on smacking and reasonable chastisement.
