Meaning of smack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Apache-based solution stack consisting of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka.
2. A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
   countable, uncountable
3. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
4. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
5. A surname from German.
6. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
   countable, uncountable
7. A group of jellyfish.
   collective
8. The sound of a loud kiss.
9. Heroin.
   slang, uncountable
10. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
11. A form of fried potato; a scallop.
    Northern-England, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon”

“I did not call him fool, and vex my friend, / But quietly allowed experiment, / Encouraged him to dust his drink, and now / Grate lignum vitæ now bruise so-called grains / Of Paradise, and now, for perfume, pour / Distilment rare, the rose of Jericho, / Holy-thorn, passion-flower, and what know I? / Till beverage obtained the fancied smack.”

“But take it: if the smack is sour / The better for the embittered hour; […]”

“He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.”

“I like my cousins in Holland immensely, but I feel more sib to the Northerners. Your description of Lofoten is fine. I can see them. They must be enchanting in their way, cod's head and tails or no. There is a fine eau de Javelle smack about a Dutch canal, by the way, that takes[…]”

“Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.”

“But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington.”

“he took the bride about the neck. And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack.”

“Then he told them of the princess, how she came to him, and how much she had to kiss him to get the whistle, when nobody saw or heard it over in the wood - "I must get on with these lies if the vat is to be full," said Ashiepattle, - so he told them about the queen, how stingy she was with the money and how liberal she was with kisses, that one could hear the smacks all over the wood.”

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