smack
As if with a smack or slapAs if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons · Recorded: Commander Keane, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
1 senses(not comparable)As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.
Right smack in the middle of getting ready to leave.
She fell smack on her face.
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Origin
From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack,From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin.
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