单词 | smack talk |
释义 | smack talkn. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S., esp. in sporting contexts). Ostentatiously boastful or insulting banter, often delivered with the intention of demoralizing, intimidating, or humiliating an opponent; self-aggrandizing rhetoric; trash talk. Cf. to talk smack at talk v. Additions. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] mirth1560 dicacity1592 jest1597 pleasantry1602 raillery1642 rallery1652 badinage1658 banter1660 disport1667 badinerie1712 rig1725 bantery1739 jokery1740 persiflage1757 quizzery1809 quiz1819 chaff1841 borak1845 barrackc1890 mickey-take1968 smack talk1989 bants2008 the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boasting scornfully or insultingly > scornful or insulting boasts insulting1628 trash-talking1974 trash talk1981 smack talk1989 1989 Aiken (S. Carolina) Standard 3 Nov. (Sports section) 9 a/4 It's..South Aiken's chance..to win the town's bragging rights—or what some of the players call ‘smack talk’. 1993 T. E. Kakonis Shadow Counter xiv. 169 He maybe ain't a bad guy... Deep down, y'know, y'get past all that smack talk. 2001 Maximum PC Dec. 5/1 We absolutely encourage criticism... But if you resort to name-calling and smack-talk, you'll only raise the ire of the editors. 2009 Observer (Nexis) 26 July (Sports Mag.) 30 Pre-season smack talk. ‘We're not coming up to be also-rans, we're coming up to make our mark.’ 2010 R. Broom Cocked & Loaded 112 Back at the station, they were talking all sorts of trash and high-fiving each other for making what they thought was a big drug bust. The smack talk stopped as soon as the city attorney told them that they couldn't arrest us. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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