See swack in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1985, Bert Randolph Sugar, George Napolitano, Wrestling's Great Grudge Matches: \"battles and Feuds\", page 18:",
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"ref": "2015, Colleen Oakley, Before I Go:",
"text": "He walks up behind me and plants a kiss firmly between where my ear and jawline meet. The swack reverberates in my eardrum.",
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"ref": "2002, Kezi Matthews, Flying Lessons, page 1:",
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"ref": "1977, Colette Inez, Alive and Taking Names, and Other Poems, page 52:",
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"ref": "2002, Friends Journal - Volume 48, page 46:",
"text": "But the severity and brutality of Israeli repression in the Occupied Territories against ordinary people who have nothing to do with extremist activities is far more than the “swack” of frustration Frohlich describes.",
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"ref": "1946, Lucy Rountree Kuykendall, P.S. to Pecos, page 45:",
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"ref": "1969, Richard E. Hicks, Paul Jay Fink, Van Buren O. Hammett, Psychedelic Drugs, page 47:",
"text": "Now Baker has been chided quite a bit for his method of treatment for the seeming barbarity of strapping the patients down and swacking them out.",
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"ref": "1946, Lucy Rountree Kuykendall, P.S. to Pecos, page 45:",
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"ref": "1969, Richard E. Hicks, Paul Jay Fink, Van Buren O. Hammett, Psychedelic Drugs, page 47:",
"text": "Now Baker has been chided quite a bit for his method of treatment for the seeming barbarity of strapping the patients down and swacking them out.",
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"text": "The buyers then carry them home, swinging the rope and shouting, \"Bettara! Bettara!\" to warn people to step aside or risk having their holiday clothes swacked with the sticky pickles.",
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"text": "Your brother's no hero,\" Nick told him, shaking plaster snow from his own dark hair and swacking it off his faded denim shirt and jeans.",
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"text": "I wondered if I should tell the truth, always a dangerous tactic with women, as they usually retaliated by swacking you over the head with an even more devastating truth about yourself .",
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"ref": "2005, Gilda Cordero-Fernando, The Last Full Moon: Lessons on My Life:",
"text": "My father gleefully took this as a challenge to his tennis skill, unpacked his racquet, and swacked every flying mammal within reach.",
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"ref": "2010, James D. Heintz, Apple Box Boy: Slices of Life, page 169:",
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"ref": "1885, Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Harper's - Volume 70, page 73:",
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"ref": "1983, Julia Howard, A Lasting Image, page 154:",
"text": "The windshield wipers were swacking rapidly back and forth in a hopeless attempt to clear away the sheets of water.",
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"ref": "1985, Hugh Shimmin, Liverpool Life ; The Courts and Alleys of Liverpool, page 106:",
"text": "Ho has a very peculiar way of swacking his lips, and frequently talks of a mutton chop, and how he likes it cooked .",
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"ref": "1919, Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality - Volume 107, page 30:",
"text": "At any rate, motoring is not even as you were ”before the war, but a good deal further behind in many respects, buoyed up only by the enthusiasm of released automobilists and neomotorists swacking their fill of new post-war delights.",
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"ref": "1969, The Pacific Reporter, page 652:",
"text": "The “swacking\" of beer, without more, has no direct probative bearing upon any factual issue in this case.",
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"ref": "1979, Roger Lichtenberg Simon, Peking Duck: A Moses Wine Detective Novel, page 117:",
"text": "By Five o'clock I was back in my room, swacking down Mike's Jack Daniel's with Mike and Harvey.",
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"ref": "2003, Elana Nachman/Dykewomon, Moon Creek Road: Collected Stories, page 72:",
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"text": "Pulling away, Brennan felt his shin swack against Glass's shin, but Glass kept moving.",
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"ref": "2009, George Baldry, Lilias Rider Haggard, The Rabbit Skin Cap, page 129:",
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"text": "Jake explained it to her: “A swack started it, at the last show one night in Hoquiam,” he said. “I just happened to notice it, and so after that I've planted a couple of stagehands in the audience for Hen-Tooth's act every show, to start it again.",
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"text": "I'm looking for a guy — been a swack up and down this coast for twenty years — he scrammed with a bundle of my loot.",
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