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Meaning of smack-dab | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

Exactly in a place, especially the middle; directly; precisely; dead-center.

not-comparable, slang

Equivalents

Français pile-poil
Русский прямиком прямо

Examples

“I tossed the water balloon and it landed smack-dab on the top of his head.”
“Things build and build, and it becomes clearer and clearer that a battle is about to take place. In “Stormborn,” a bang above deck is all the warning we get, and suddenly the Yara Greyjoy fleet is smack dab in the middle of Euron’s Iron Fleet, and the party begins.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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