smack
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9.9
- noun
- /smæk/
- Archaic
:
barca de pesca
- Picture a pink bungalow smack in the middle of Main Street, a red Mustang in the driveway, and crazy Mark writing poetry on the porch.
- a fishing smack
Examples
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IT'S THE FISHING SMACK SANTIAGO.
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Haliax does something terrible that Tehlu Singer witnesses, so he lays the smack down on him.
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There have been pleasure boats slipping smack up from Mexico.
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About Smack Dab
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The crews of a fleet of about 80 smacks, whose port was near Fulton Market, caught bluefish and cod in the ocean using hand lines.
Academic text (1990) -
In the late 1800s, pound-net fishermen also sold menhaden to crews on fishing smacks for use as bait.
Academic text (1990) -
All of the above quotes have nothing "liberal" about them at all but rather smack of authoritarian intolerance and demonization of the rural poor using crude stereotypes, IMO. Shame!
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(SMACKS LIPS)
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It is also part of a 3-unit townhouse building where, according to the notes left by a Redfin agent about the property, the original owner in the 1980s split the vintage house into two—moving the back of the house to the back end of the property and building a new addition smack dab in the middle.
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The fishermen returned to the harbor with their catch, sailing smoothly on a small smack.
Synonyms
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1.1
A small boat that moves by wind using sails
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6.1
A small fast boat often with sails, used to carry people or messages
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4.8
A small open boat that people use for short trips, often to reach a larger boat
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1.0
A boat that is small and used for short trips on lakes or rivers
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8.1
A small sailing boat with one mast
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3.7
A boat with sails that uses wind to move
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1.4
A small boat that uses sails to move and usually has one mast
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7.6
A small flat-bottom boat that people use in shallow water for fishing
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9.9
A small sailboat with simple sails and no pole at the front, easy to handle alone
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2.5
A small boat you move by pedalling on calm water
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9.9
A small fishing boat with sails that slant
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9.9
A small boat that sells food and goods to ships at sea
A boat used to catch fish that has a tank to keep the catch alive
A boat with two masts that carried oysters and goods in the Chesapeake Bay
A small boat that patrols and watches for danger near a harbor or fleet
Compounds
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Etymology
Smack. The small sailing boat sense comes from a Dutch word for a little fishing vessel that English sailors adopted, so a 'smack' is a traditional small fishing boat.