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smack-dab

/smak-dab/US // ˈsmækˈdæb //

啪啪啪,咂嘴,咂摸一下,咂摸

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : directly; squarely: smack dab in the middle.

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Examples

  • To the uninitiated, this might smack of poor taste and inappropriate timing.

  • On the first day of shooting, Kallai and his film crew found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a war zone.

  • His brother Sidronio immediately took over, and the Windy City reported no shortage of smack.

  • Dab says the truth—however frightening it may be—ultimately will keep people calm.

  • In the SMU study it was found that children lasted about 10 minutes after a smack before they started misbehaving again.

  • Scotch shrewdness has occasionally a certain smack of mild hypocrisy, which, however, does no harm to anyone.

  • The little bullet-headed Jim was drafted off to the workhouse school, and from thence to a small fishing-smack.

  • The new smack was flying a flag at her masthead, but Jim could not read well enough to make out the inscription on the flag.

  • On one grey Sunday morning a pretty smack came creeping through the fleet.

  • The skipper of the smack invited Jim to go below, and handed him a steaming mug of tea.