smack

/smæk/ verb

Translation

› [T] to hit someone with the flat, inside part of your hand

şaplak atmak, tokat vurmak

Do you think it's right to smack children when they're naughty?701702583

smack sth against/onto/down, etc › to hit something hard against something else

sertçe çarpmak, hızlıca vurmak

Ray smacked the ball into the net.1971

smack of sth phrasal verb

› If something smacks of an unpleasant quality, it seems to have that quality.

andırmak, anımsatmak, hatırlatmak

a policy that smacks of racism1744

(Definition of smack verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad

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