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Definition of put the smack down
put the smack down
verb
- to regulate, often by force.
The party started to get out of hand, so we had to put the smack down.
- See more words with the same meaning: to attack, to fight.
Last edited on Sep 09 1998. Submitted by Anonymous from Boston, MA, USA on Sep 09 1998.
- to inflict harm upon; BEAT UP.
I'm gonna put the smack down on that biotch.
- See more words with the same meaning: to attack, to fight.
Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by Jarett C. from New York, NY, USA on Dec 17 1999.
- to get serious, to 'stop playing around' and put full force and focus behind intent.
'Smack' is slang for heroin. To 'put the smack down' implies that the speaker has been in a detached, recreational, or mind-altered state up to the point of the statement, but is now setting that aside to apply their direct attention and capability.
It also implies that the speaker had underestimated the subject of the statement, but will discontinue their underevaluation, and intends to force the subject to reform their own evaluation of the speaker.All previous examples apply here.
He thought he could try me, so I had to put the smack down to show him out.
I heard sirens on my street, so I had to put the smack down to check out what was going on.
Last edited on Sep 02 2015. Submitted by enkephalin07 from New Orleans, LA, USA on Sep 02 2015.
notes
- Also lay the smack down.
I know she was using me, but she thought I didn't know it, so I had to lay the smack down and set her skrait.
Last edited on Sep 02 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 05 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to attack, to fight': | |
| Definitions include: to hit. Often spoken as a sound effect when playfully hitting a friend, especially when they do or say something stupid. | |
| Definitions include: to punch or attack, typically with no prior warning. Also stole on. | |
| Definitions include: a disagreement or fight. | |
| Definitions include: to use Ecstasy (MDMA). | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool"; "awesome". | |
| Definitions include: prone to raping. | |
| Definitions include: to severely beat up or injure. | |
| Definitions include: to physically attack someone. | |
| Definitions include: aggravation. | |
| Definitions include: a competition employed to determine the ownership of an object when ownership is in dispute. | |
| Definitions include: to attack, beat up. | |
| Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury. | |
| Definitions include: to "step up" to a fight. | |
| Definitions include: to beat someone until they enter the fetal position (their body forming a tight ball.) | |
| Definitions include: to defeat. | |
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Other terms relating to 'down': | |
| Definitions include: to prepare for hardship. | |
| Definitions include: a fight or severe beating. | |
| Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up. | |
| Definitions include: to back down from a situation. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet. | |
| Definitions include: also "bow down to the white porcelain god." | |
| Definitions include: to sadden one. | |
| Definitions include: to greatly impress a crowd. | |
| Definitions include: unattractive. | |
| Definitions include: a person who has oral sex and intercourse with multiple people. | |
| Definitions include: to knuckle down; to submit to; to melt down; to be unable to take the heat; to give in. | |
| Definitions include: overly formal, conservative. | |
| Definitions include: to eat. | |
| Definitions include: to give someone oral sex. | |
| Definitions include: to stop being angry. | |
Other terms relating to 'put': | |
| Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "put it in your butt". | |
| Definitions include: a pimp's primary prostitute. | |
| Definitions include: place down | |
| Definitions include: to be quiet; "shut up". | |
| Definitions include: to risk everything on a single unlikely event. | |
| Definitions include: to delay a topic until a future time. | |
| Definitions include: to be quiet. | |
| Definitions include: to incarcerate. | |
| Definitions include: to kill an animal, usually due to injury, sickness, or disease. | |
| Definitions include: to defecate liquid feces. | |
| Definitions include: to deflate someone's over-inflated ego. | |
| Definitions include: see in the buck. | |
| Definitions include: to swear, to promise that something you have done happened. | |
| Definitions include: make one stronger. | |
Other terms relating to 'smack': | |
| Definitions include: of a female, to smack someone across the face. | |
| Definitions include: "happening". | |
| Definitions include: the smacking of a person with a penis. | |
| Definitions include: general derogatory term; "dick". | |
| Definitions include: to beat someone badly. | |
| Definitions include: to make a person agog. | |
| Definitions include: offensive speech about another person. | |
| Definitions include: to slap. | |
| Definitions include: directly. | |
| Definitions include: to beat with physical violence. | |
| Definitions include: very intoxicated by anything but alcohol. | |
| Definitions include: unattractive. | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. | |
| Definitions include: to speak badly of. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
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