smack-dab

Related to smack-dab: smack dab in the middle

smack-dab

(smăk′dăb′)

adv. Slang

Squarely; directly: stood smack-dab in the middle of the freeway.

[smack + dab, with a sudden contact.]

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smack′-dab′

adv.

Informal. directly; squarely.

[1890–95]

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smack-dab

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Slang. With precision or absolute conformity:

bang, dead, direct, directly, exactly, fair, flush, just, precisely, right, smack, square, squarely, straight.

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