| 单词 | to talk smack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto talk smack colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S., esp. in sporting contexts). to talk smack and variants: to engage in ostentatiously boastful or insulting banter, esp. in order to demoralize, intimidate, or humiliate an opponent; to make malicious remarks about someone; to talk trash. ΚΠ 1974 Chicago Tribune 2 Feb. i. 12/2 Smack..has replaced jive (nonsense). Nowadays, you're talking smack. 1979 Los Angeles Sentinel 21 June b5/2 A winner isn't the one who leads the pack. But one who tries without talking smack. 1988 R. McKnight Moustapha's Eclipse 95 In the showers, the boy went nudge crazy, laughing, joking, talking smack. 1990 Sports Illustr. 19 Nov. 41/3 Their coach, Jenkins, has been talking a lot of smack in the papers about what they did to us last year. 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 15 May w3/2 Like George Bush and Saddam Hussein, the music industry and Internet file-sharers spend a lot of time talking smack before actually getting their war on. 2006 M. Kirsch Girl's Guide to absolutely Everything 213/1 It's a good idea to refrain from talking smack about the person who dumped your friend. < as lemmas |
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