smack adv.
1. directly.
Castle Rackrent (1832) 43: Every thing went on smack smooth. | ||
Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress 18: Like cronies they hugg’d, and came smack to the ground. | ||
‘Dumble Dum Deary’ in Chap Book (1920) Sept. 18: I fell where I never did fall before; / In love it was, smack up to the chin. | ||
‘The Patent S--t-Pot’ in Cockchafer 30: He fell smack in love with a beautiful maid. | ||
Flash Mirror 24: [She] shied it smack at my nob, but it missed me and vent plump in my old ’ooman’s blinker. | ||
Stray Subjects (1848) 982: I’ve been sweatin’ over thar, about ten hours; a hull day lost smack; and not a red cent made yet. | ||
Pic-nic Sketches 206: They want you to know right smack. | ||
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 36/1: So, to put the crab on my gentleman, I boldly stepped our from my corner, and putting on a look, started him smack in the face. | ||
Pulaski Citizen (TN) 10 Nov. 2/2: Perhaps the colonel intended that his penciled javelin should [...] run smack in the Tennessee printing offices. | ||
Arena Oct. in Stallman (1966) 94: They can’t open th’ doors! Th’ fellers er smack up ag’in ’em. | in||
Boy’s Own Paper XL:4 172: I bet he’s got a deep move on, or he wouldn’t make out to be coming smack for us like that. | ||
Front Page Act III: We run smack into a police patrol. | ||
letter in Charters I (1995) 13: We look smack at the sea, and on a clear day you can see Long Island. | ||
They Die with Their Boots Clean 218: I nearly went smacko on the line. | ||
USA Confidential 218: The red light stockade on Post Office Street is smack downtown. | ||
Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 121: A house like our own, only it was a lot nearer the bike factory, smack next to it in fact. | ‘The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale’||
(con. 1969) Dispatches 74: This Zip jumps up smack into me, lays his AK-47 fucking right into me. | ||
Never in My Lifetime in Best Radio Plays (1984) 82: Lured me with your flashing eyes and your little boy’s knees, that’s what you’ve done. And I’ve fell right smack in. | ||
Six Out Seven (1994) 93: It don’t do nuthin for my appetite when it be starin me right smack in the face like that. | ||
Shame the Devil 207: Here’s Hamlin Street, smack in the middle of the Brookland neighbourhood. | ||
Disassembled Man [ebook] His office was in Johnstown, smack middle in a strip mall. |
2. immediately.
Paul Clifford I 69: I tells you what, Paul, you’ll please to break with them, smack and at once, or devil a brad you’ll ever get from Peg Lobkins. |
3. see smack-dab
In compounds
see slap-bang adv.
(US) exactly, precisely, entirely.
Yorks. Gaz. 12 Dec. n.p.: He tipp’d off the cratur [...] and ordered his cab / To do his precursoring ramble, smack dab. | ||
DN I 232: He hit him smack dab in the mouth. | ||
Abner Daniel 14: It’ll be started inside of the next yeer an’ ’ll run smack dab through my property. | ||
DN III:viii 590: smack-dab, adv. Squarely. | ‘Word-List From Western Indiana’ in||
Runyon on Broadway (1954) 42: Lola Sapola suddenly drives her right fist smack-dab into Dave the Dude’s stomach. | ‘Romance in the Roaring Forties’ in||
What’s In It For Me? 115: She was walking right smack into Teddy Ast’s waiting arms. | ||
We Were the Rats 43: Greta, who kissed me smack-dab on the lips. | ||
Really the Blues 206: Now the same music parked me right smack on another corner, this time in the heart of Harlem. | ||
Walk on the Wild Side 269: Looks like you walked smack-dab into it again. | ||
(con. 1940s) Admiral (1968) 65: If that stupid bastard has to be treated like a mad dog, he has come smack dab against the right man. | ||
Come Monday Morning 167: He had all he could do to keep from turnin’ his ole red truck right smack dab into them. | ||
(con. 1969–70) F.N.G. (1988) 132: What if we’re smackfuckindab in the middle of their staging area or something? | ||
(con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 1: King’s Cross [...] Right smack-dab in the middle of it in Victoria Street. | ||
(con. 1960s) Blood Brothers 107: We rode smack dab into the middle of an ambush and got an ass-kicking. | ||
Healthcare Fix 3: Today’s fifty-year-olds were born in 1957, smack dab in the middle of the baby boom. In 2035, they’ll be smack dab in the middle of their retirements. | ||
Blacktop Wasteland 72: A rusty single-wide smack dab in the middle. |
see separate entry.
absolutely level, perfectly smooth.
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Life J. Downing (1834) 28: [He] rolled them up in piles and sot fire to ’em again and burnt ’em up smack smooth. | ||
Dict. Americanisms 409: Smack smooth, at the West, a term applied to land which is thoroughly cleared: i.e. smoothly cleared; level. | ||
, | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. | |
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Sl. Dict. |