Meaning of swack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large number or amount of something.
   slang
2. Synonym of smack.
   countable, uncountable
3. A sharp blow.
   countable, uncountable
4. A bum or petty thief.
5. The sound of a sharp blow.
   countable, uncountable
6. A wet sound such as a loud kiss.
   countable, uncountable
7. A striking stimulus.
   countable, uncountable
8. An attack, a swipe.
   countable, uncountable
9. A single attempt or instance of taking action; a crack; a go.
   countable, uncountable
10. Clout; influence.
    uncountable
11. A gulp or hearty swallow.
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“She gave me a swack of books.”

“They run a Navajo Trading Store along with five hundred cows and a swack of bad horses.”

“Littleburg is one of the more challenging scenarios on your SC3K CD. You begin with only 9,125 inhabitants, only $1,071 in the bank, and a swack of services that'll choke your pocketbook if you even think of expanding.”

“My eighteen holes was simply a long ride in a golfmobile, with me stopping far too many times to take a swack at the ball.”

“She hit Kevin with a hard swack, rudely knocking him to his senses.”

“[…]they needed nothing more than a good swack against a boulder.”

“The ball flew between them at incredible speed, hitting off their pads with a swack! that could be heard clearly above the steady splattering of the rain.”

“But with its impact, a sound similar to a swack! emanated from the ring and echoed throughout the gym.”

“The rest of his ragged company remained seated, their heads low, staring at the earth, panting in the thin air. There was no sound but the swack - swack of the machete.”

“But just then, they heard a swack and a man cried, “Ouch!””

“And Cyndi Lauper is ecstatic, first leaping up in the air and then, for good measure, racing over to give Fabulous Moolah a swack for good luck.”

“As Molly caught up with him she grabbed the lamprey and yanked. The mouth popped away from J.T.'s body with a swack.”

“He walks up behind me and plants a kiss firmly between where my ear and jawline meet. The swack reverberates in my eardrum.”

“But rain splatting against the bus window and the swack - swacking sound of the big windshield wipers up front punched me awake.”

“An area rug can supply the zing of pattern or a swack of color to a room that languishes from blandness .”

“Nothing to say, the oilcloth moans under the swack of Mother's sponge.”

“She's taken a swack at you, accusing you of ruining your child. It is anger. Don't return it.”

“But the severity and brutality of Israeli repression in the Occupied Territories against ordinary people who have nothing to do with extremist activities is far more than the “swack” of frustration Frohlich describes.”

“We are certainly delighted to see you take another swack at microfilm and are sending our Chapter 14 on the subject.”

“If we took too much at one time, we'd tip the police that we have operating motor vehicles. Instead, we steal it ten gallons at a swack.”

“I'm not sure how I feel about taking on the whole Establishment in one swack.”

“You have more swack with their management than they do, the same way you have more swack with foreign leaders than any of the Ambassadors that you talked to.”

“What the French criticize," says Le Monde, after a swack at Coca-Cola,“ is not so much Coca-Cola, as its orchestration, less the drink itself than the civilization of which it is a mark and the symbol.”

“Jake explained it to her: “A swack started it, at the last show one night in Hoquiam,” he said. “I just happened to notice it, and so after that I've planted a couple of stagehands in the audience for Hen-Tooth's act every show, to start it again.”

“They look drunk—like a swack holding onto a lamp post.”

“I'm looking for a guy — been a swack up and down this coast for twenty years — he scrammed with a bundle of my loot.”

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