smacks

Noun (1)

smack (countable and uncountable, plural smacks)

1. A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
   • rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon
2. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
   • He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
3. (slang, uncountable) Synonym of heroin.
   • Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 191

   Synonyms:

   heroin

4. (Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.

Noun (2)

smack (plural smacks)

1. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack.
   • He had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he had sung at night sometimes when he was alone steering on his watch in the smacks or in the turtle boats.1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 39
2. (collective) A group of jellyfish.
   • In November 2007, a 16-square-kilometer smack of jellyfish at a depth of 35 feet invaded the Northern Salmon Company, Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, killing more than 100,000 fish at a cost of more than $2 million.2017, Bruce E. Johansen, Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science, Society, and Solutions, Bloomsbury Publishing

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