I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
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Most parents smack their children sometimes.
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Parents don't need the right to smack their children .
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Three children crying in pushchairs were smacked .
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Four children were scolded on buses and smacked .
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The most serious aspect of smacking children is that in a substantial number of cases this escalates to something worse.
face
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Catching her wrist, Holman smacked her face viciously, sending her to her knees, but still holding on to her.
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As soon as you think you've got it licked, it smacks you in the face .
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Once Williams was smacked in the face by a throw in an international game, breaking her nose.
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Because he thinks a woman is not gon na get up and smack him in the face .
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White men continued to smack his face and strike his body.
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Lynda Chalker had smacked his face in the crush bar of the Grand Hotel.
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I discovered that it was a slippery reptile that came at high speed to smack me in my face without notice.
lip
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The chimpanzee then pulls out the grass stem and picks off the termites with its teeth, smacking its lips with pleasure.
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She begins cackling, smacking her lips , like a child thinking of a turkey dinner.
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Granny Weatherwax smacked her lips , like some one emerging from a very deep sleep.
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The woman seemed to be smacking her lips over every word.
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He smacked his lips and stroked his moustache with surprise.
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Shove his face into his own shit, they were learning, and he will devour it, smacking his lips .
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Cranston snored gently like a child, muttering now and again and smacking his lips .
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The young one smacked his lips .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The cop beside him smacked him on the arm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But surely this smacks of charity; well-meaning but in many cases misguided.
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Father spun round, took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear.
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He decided to smack her for this.
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He stepped out, and the cold from a recent snow flurry smacked him hard in the face.
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He threw a curveball down, and the batter smacked it dead on.
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It smacks of yellow journalism....
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The first task is to smack the ball up the ramp and enter the rollercoaster ride.
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Three years ago, you smacked a girl around and people maybe said she asked for it.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
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You got ta feel a smack on the cheek, to make you draw back your teeth and react.
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You get smack cut with all kinds of shit.
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It was the same when we got into smack .
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Of course, she would have to get off smack in the long run.
give
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He hugs women and gives them a good smack on the lips.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
talk smack
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She gave Danny's hand a smack .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All you see in the papers now is smack , like.
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Authoritarians do not apologize for the smack of firm government.
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If the horse jumps the first fence stickily, a smack on landing will sharpen him up.
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So far, she'd just flushed the smack down the loo and shoved the syringes in the bin.
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The little girl gets pulled again, falls with a loud smack .
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The occasional smack meted out in a happy, secure home is not going to scar a child's psyche.
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Then she raised one foot and brought it down with a smack on the water, splashing him, and laughed.
III. adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I drove smack into the side of the garage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I ran smack into it on Thursday.
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I was smack in the middle of this interesting war.
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It came to rest smack against the mountain two miles west of Morrisonville.
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Some were smack in the middle of neighborhoods.