smack-dab

See also: smackdab, and smack dab

English

Alternative forms

• smack bang
• smack dab

Pronunciation

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Adverb

smack-dab (not comparable)

1. (slang) Exactly in a place, especially the middle; directly; precisely; dead-center.

   I tossed the water balloon and it landed smack-dab on the top of his head.

   • 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     Things build and build, and it becomes clearer and clearer that a battle is about to take place. In “Stormborn,” a bang above deck is all the warning we get, and suddenly the Yara Greyjoy fleet is smack dab in the middle of Euron’s Iron Fleet, and the party begins.

Translations

exactly, directly

• Finnish: tismalleen (fi)
• French: pile-poil (fr), en plein milieu
• German: haargenau (de), genau mitten
• Russian: прямико́м (ru) n (prjamikóm), прямёхонько (ru) n (prjamjóxonʹko), пря́мо (ru) n (prjámo)

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