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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a hard blow with a flat object;


VERB (1)

1. deliver a hard blow to;
- Example: "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved"
[syn: smack, thwack]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thwack \Thwack\ (thw[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thwacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Thwacking.] [Cf. OE. thakken to stroke, AS. [thorn]accian, E. whack.] 1. To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump. "A distant thwacking sound." --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 2. To fill to overflow. [Obs.] --Stanyhurst. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thwack \Thwack\, n. A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump. [1913 Webster] With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab tree and old iron rang. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thwack n 1: a hard blow with a flat object v 1: deliver a hard blow to; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved" [syn: smack, thwack]