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A sound, a slap, a hit of heroin — context decides if it's love or violence
means To strike sharply with an open hand or flat object, or the loud sound such a hit makes — also a noisy kiss, and slang for heroin.
from Likely imitative in origin — the word itself mimics the sharp 'smack' sound of a slap or a kiss, much like 'crack' or 'whack.' It's related to older Germanic and Low German forms (compare Dutch 'smakken,' to strike or fling down), all echoing that abrupt percussive noise. The heroin sense is a separate, much later 20th-century slang twist, possibly from Yiddish 'schmeck' meaning 'a sniff' or 'a taste,' which drifted into the drug world and got reshaped to sound like the familiar 'smack.'
- heroin slang
- From Yiddish schmeck, meaning a sniff or taste
- jellyfish group
- A cluster of jellyfish is called a smack
- kiss noise
- The loud lip-smack that named the affectionate gesture
- trash talk
- Smack talk dates to boxing and basketball locker rooms
smack down wrestling event — wwe's friday night wrestling show, debuted 1999
smack heroin slang — street name for heroin, widely used in drug culture since 1960s
smack talk hip hop — rap battle insult exchange, popularized by artists like 50 cent and eminem