SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE

Meaning of SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE in English

directly in the middle, in the center

The ball landed smack dab in the middle of the pizza.

Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012

SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE — directly in the middle, in the centre The ball landed smack dab in the middle of the pizza.
English Idioms vocab
MIDDLE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Middle Congo Middle Stone Age Middle Ages Middle East Middle English {{link=Middle East Treaty …
Английский словарь Британика
SMACK — I. ˈsmak noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English smæc; akin to Old Frisian smek, smaka taste, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MIDDLE — I. ˈmid ə l adjective Etymology: Middle English middel, from Old English; akin to Old Frisian middel middle, Old Saxon …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
IN — I. (|)in, ən; usu ə n after t, d, s, or z as in “split in two”, often ə m …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DAB — I. ˈdab, ˈdaa(ə)b noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English dabbe, probably of imitative origin 1. a. : a sudden …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MIDDLE — (a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the …
Английский словарь Webster
MIDDLE — ( a. ) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SMACK — smack 1 /smak/ , n. 1. a taste or flavor, esp. a slight flavor distinctive or suggestive of something: The …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MIDDLE — /mid"l/ , adj., n., v., middled, middling . adj. 1. equally distant from the extremes or outer limits; central: the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DAB — dab 1 /dab/ , v. , dabbed, dabbing , n. v.t. 1. to pat or tap gently, as with something …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SMACK — I. ˈsmak noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English smæc; akin to Old High German smac taste and probably to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MIDDLE — I. ˈmi-d ə l adjective Etymology: Middle English middel, from Old English; akin to Old English midde Date: before 12th …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DAB — I. ˈdab noun Etymology: Middle English dabbe Date: 14th century 1. : a sudden blow or thrust : poke 2. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SMACK — vi a loud kiss; a buss. 2. smack ·vi a small quantity; a taste. 3. smack ·adv as if with …
Webster English vocab
MIDDLE — adj intermediate; intervening. 2. middle ·adj the waist. 3. middle ·adj equally distant from the extreme either of a number …
Webster English vocab
DAB — noun a small mass of anything soft or moist. 2. dab ·noun a skillful hand; a dabster; an expert. 3. …
Webster English vocab
SMACK — [smack] n [ME, fr. OE smaec; akin to OHG smac taste and prob. to Lith smaguris sweet tooth] (bef. 12c) …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DAB — [dab] n [ME dabbe] (14c) 1: a sudden blow or thrust: poke 2: a small amount 3: a gentle touch …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DAB — any of the flatfishes of the genus Limanda, family Pleuronectidae, found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Dabs are …
Britannica English vocabulary
MIDDLE — middle BrE AmE ˈmɪd ə l ▷ middle|s z ▶ ˌ middle ˈ age BrE AmE ▶ ˌ Middle ˈ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
DAB — dab BrE AmE dæb ▷ dabbed dæbd ▷ dabbing ˈdæb ɪŋ ▷ dabs dæbz ▶ ˌ dab ˈ hand BrE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SMACK — / smæk; NAmE / verb , noun , adverb ■ verb 1. [ vn ] ( especially BrE ) to …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE — / ˈmɪdl; NAmE / noun , adjective ■ noun 1. the middle [ sing. ] the part of sth that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DAB — / dæb; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( -bb- ) 1. dab (at) sth to touch sth lightly, …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SMACK — I. smack 1 /smæk/ BrE AmE verb [transitive] [ Date: 1400-1500 ; Origin: Perhaps from Middle Dutch smacken 'to hit' …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MIDDLE — I. mid ‧ dle 1 S1 W2 /ˈmɪdl/ BrE AmE noun 1 . CENTRE PART the middle the part that …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DAB — I. dab 1 /dæb/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Origin: From the sound of hitting something ] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SMACK — v. & n. (foll. by of) --v.intr. 1 have a flavour of; taste of (smacked of garlic). 2 suggest the …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SMACK — n., v., & adv. --n. 1 a sharp slap or blow esp. with the palm of the hand or a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MIDDLE — adj., n., & v. --attrib.adj. 1 at an equal distance from the extremities of a thing. 2 (of a member …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SMACK — v. & n. (foll. by of) v.intr. 1 have a flavour of; taste of (smacked of garlic). 2 suggest the …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SMACK — n., v., & adv. n. 1 a sharp slap or blow esp. with the palm of the hand or a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MIDDLE — adj., n., & v. attrib.adj. 1 at an equal distance from the extremities of a thing. 2 (of a member …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DAB — adj. esp. Brit. colloq. dab hand (usu. foll. by at) a person especially skilled (in) (a dab hand at cooking). …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SMACK — 1. n., v., & adv. --n. 1. a sharp slap or blow esp. with the palm of the hand or …
Oxford English vocab
MIDDLE — adj., n., & v. --attrib.adj. 1. at an equal distance from the extremities of a thing. 2 (of a member …
Oxford English vocab
DAB — 1. v. & n. --v. (dabbed, dabbing) 1. tr. press (a surface) briefly with a cloth, sponge, etc., without rubbing, …
Oxford English vocab
SMACK — ( smacks, smacking, smacked) 1. If you smack someone, you hit them with your hand. She smacked me on the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MIDDLE — ( middles) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. The middle of something …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DAB — DAB is the transmission of digital stereo over conventional radio channels. DAB is an abbreviation for ‘digital audio broadcasting’. DAB …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DAB — ( dabs, dabbing, dabbed) 1. If you dab something, you touch it several times using quick, light movements. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SMACK — (~s, ~ing, ~ed) 1. If you ~ someone, you hit them with your hand. She ~ed me on the side …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SMACK
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
MIDDLE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a middle position (= one that is between two extreme positions ) ▪ They …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DAB — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES dab perfume on sth (= quickly put perfume on ) ▪ She dabbed some …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SMACK — (DIRECTLY), UK also smack-bang, US also smack-dab [adverb] [not gradable] - directly and forcefully, producing a brief loud noiseI wasn't …
Cambridge English vocab
MIDDLE — [adjective] [before noun; not gradable]In the sequence a, b, c, d, e the middle letter is c, because there are …
Cambridge English vocab
DAB — hand [noun] [rarely subject; C] [UK] [informal] - someone who is very good at a particular activityBinns was a dab …
Cambridge English vocab
MIDDLE — n. Middle West Middle Congo Middle Stone Age Middle Ages Middle East Middle English Middle East Treaty Organization
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
MIDDLE — Synonyms and related words : active, active voice, amidships, arbitrational, arbitrative, average, axial, axis, balance, bisect, center, center of action, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SMACK
Slang English vocab
SMACK — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ firm ( BrE ), good , hard ▪ light ▪ loud , resounding ▪ He landed …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
MIDDLE — INDEX: 1. the middle 2. in the middle RELATED WORDS between two or more people or things : ↑ BETWEEN …
Longman Activator English vocab
SMACK — n. 25B6; noun the beer has a smack of hops : TASTE, flavour, savour. a smack of bitterness in his …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SMACK — n. 25B6; noun she gave him a smack : SLAP, clout, cuff, blow, spank, rap, swat, crack, thump, punch; informal …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
MIDDLE — adj. 1 central, centre, halfway, mid, midway, mean, medial, Technical mesial We had reached the middle stage of our journey …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
DAB — v. 1 daub, pat, tap, tamp, touch Dab a little more paint into the crevices n. 2 touch, drop, trace, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
MIDDLE — I adjective 1 BAD : The girl was of middle height and was wearing a blue suit. GOOD : The …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
SMACK — I 1. сущ. 1) вкус; привкус; аромат, запах Syn : taste 1., flavour 1. 2) перен. привкус, след, налет; признак; …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MIDDLE — 1. сущ. 1) середина а) центральная часть чего-л. in the middle of Syn : centre, midst, center б) среднее состояние, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DAB
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SMACK — _I 1. smæk n 1. вкус, привкус; запах smack of garlic - привкус /запах/ чеснока smack of resin was in …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
MIDDLE — middle.ogg 1. mıdl n 1. середина (right) in the (very) middle of the room of the day, of the summer …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

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