Definition of lay the smack down

lay the smack down

verb

• to beat someone badly.

  I'm gonna lay the smack down on that chick!

  I layed the smack down on that chick.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to hit, punch, slap.

  Last edited on Oct 28 2018. Submitted by Melissa M. from Nova Scotia, Canada on Feb 02 1999.

• to cause harm to another person or thing.

  That guy was talking trash. I'm going to have to lay the smack down on him.

  Last edited on Oct 28 2018. Submitted by Nelson L. from Reading, PA, USA on Dec 10 2001.

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Other terms relating to 'to hit, punch, slap':
deck	Definitions include: to hit.
DP	Definitions include: acronym for "dear partner", i.e. one's unmarried significant other.
roshambo	Definitions include: to get flicked in the testicles; usually causing extreme pain.
dome	Definitions include: a head.
smack	Definitions include: offensive speech about another person.
knuckle sandwich	Definitions include: a punch or hit with a first, usually to the face.
50 yard c*nt punt	Definitions include: a very hard kick to the female genitals ("cunt").
jack	Definitions include: a five pound note.
give a thumper	Definitions include: to strike someone with great force.
whup	Definitions include: to beat.
thump	Definitions include: to strike with great force, as in a punch.
brain	Definitions include: to hit someone in the head quite hard.
beam	Definitions include: to hit in the head.
b*tch-slap	Definitions include: a slap of the manner described in the verb form.
bang	Definitions include: to have, to take.
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Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'down':
batten down the hatches	Definitions include: to prepare for hardship.
beat down	Definitions include: a fight or severe beating.
bout to put the beat down	Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
bow down	Definitions include: to back down from a situation.
bow down before the porcelain god	Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet.
bow down to the porcelain god	Definitions include: also "bow down to the white porcelain god."
bring down	Definitions include: to sadden one.
bring the house down	Definitions include: to greatly impress a crowd.
broke down	Definitions include: unattractive.
bust down	Definitions include: a person who has oral sex and intercourse with multiple people.
butter down	Definitions include: to knuckle down; to submit to; to melt down; to be unable to take the heat; to give in.
buttoned-down	Definitions include: overly formal, conservative.
chow down	Definitions include: to eat.
come down	Definitions include: to give someone oral sex.
cool down	Definitions include: to stop being angry.
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Other terms relating to 'lay':
lay	Definitions include: relaxed and comfortable.
lay a cable	Definitions include: to defecate.
lay a loaf	Definitions include: to defecate.
lay a pipeline	Definitions include: to defecate a large amount.
lay cable	Definitions include: to defecate.
lay down the law	Definitions include: to enforce the rules.
lay hot snakes	Definitions include: to defecate.
lay into	Definitions include: to eat voraciously.
lay it on	Definitions include: to exaggerate.
lay it on the line	Definitions include: to reveal the truth.
lay it on thick	Definitions include: to exaggerate.
lay it out	Definitions include: to reveal the truth.
lay low	Definitions include: to hide.
lay off	Definitions include: to stop consuming.
lay one	Definitions include: to flatulate.
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Other terms relating to 'smack':
b*tch smack	Definitions include: of a female, to smack someone across the face.
crack-a-smackin'	Definitions include: "happening".
d*cksmack	Definitions include: the smacking of a person with a penis.
d*ck smack	Definitions include: general derogatory term; "dick".
mind-smack	Definitions include: to make a person agog.
put the smack down	Definitions include: to regulate, often by force.
smack	Definitions include: offensive speech about another person.
smack around	Definitions include: to slap.
smack dab	Definitions include: directly.
smack down	Definitions include: to beat with physical violence.
smacked	Definitions include: very intoxicated by anything but alcohol.
smacked with a 40	Definitions include: unattractive.
smack Lester	Definitions include: to masturbate.
talk smack	Definitions include: to speak badly of.
Other terms relating to 'the':
101 scoop, the	Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
2-10, the	Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
3rd degree, the	Definitions include: interrogation.
3 sheets to the wind	Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
411, the	Definitions include: information.
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.	Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
about the size of it	Definitions include: a good estimate.
ace in the hole	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
across the board	Definitions include: inclusive.
add fuel to the fire	Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
against the clock	Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
ahead of the curve	Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
aim Archie at the adamant	Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
ain't no fun when the rabbit got the gun	Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
a little on the side	Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.
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