smack talk

See also: talk smack and smack-talk

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Noun

smack talk (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Insulting speech, especially when intended to irritate or annoy someone.

Verb

smack talk (third-person singular simple present smack talks, present participle smack talking, simple past and past participle smack talked)

  1. (slang) To talk in an insulting way intended to irritate or annoy someone.
    • 2012, Storm Large, Crazy Enough: A Memoir‎[1]:
      I smartassed and smack-talked half of the interview, but as I relaxed a bit more and genuinely talked with them, a strange thing happened.
    • 2025 May 25, Sam Graham-Felsen, “Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 May 2025:
      Maybe we’ll playfully 'smack-talk a fellow friend, or commiserate about some schleppy aspect of parenthood.

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