(v. t.) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
(n.) A blow with the open hand; a slap.
(v. i.) To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eventually he lays it back invitingly to Iniesta, 25 yards out, and he spanks it high and wide.
(2) Compared with the control group, both treatment groups of mothers reported significantly fewer child behavior problems, reduced stress levels, and less use of spanking.
(3) Spanking, in the last case, was the cause of an important luxation of T12-L1, at first with a complete paraplegia, and was associated with the fact that the child was only seen a few days after by a doctor and immediately referred.
(4) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
(5) It lured Harry Enfield from the BBC in a big-money deal in 2000, but Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show was a career low point.
(6) The tickets are only €10, yet the first prize is a brand spanking new Fiat Panda 4x4 – with all optional extras.
(7) Then, after a single, a full toss is offered to Sangakkara, and he spanks it through cover and stalks off for a sarnie.
(8) More disjointedness like that after kick-off and they'll get their hids spanked.
(9) The venue looked good and made Labour's point, a spanking new hospital standing as visual proof of Labour's investment in public services (a point only slightly undermined by the sight of an audience in coats and woolly hats, apparently because the central heating in the building was not yet working).
(10) He had been accused of abusing eight youngsters at Cambridge Hostel in the town by spanking and touching them.
(11) Fresh belief flowed through Arsenal, even more so two minutes later when Ramsey scored with a spanking volley.
(12) Smith was secretary of the Rochdale Hostel for Boys Association, where he was accused of abusing vulnerable youngsters by spanking and touching them.
(13) To emphasise the point, the Batmobile steals every scene it's in, juggernauting across the Gotham rooftops in a spectacular chase that ends with Wayne earning a spanking from his lovable cockney butler Michael Caine.
(14) DOWN UNDER He has just been given a lucrative new job where progress simply means doing better than David Moyes and last week he led his national team to a momentous spanking of the side reputed to be one of the best in history, but Louis van Gaal is not a happy man.
(15) My mother, out of patience, spanked him, but regretted it later.
(16) "Honey, get into that bath before I spank you," Bond warns.)
(17) And just as Mikey-Michael is reckoning that Eranga has yapped himself out of focus, he hammers down one that's absurdly short and outside leg, so Ali gets right on top of it and spanks a swivel-pull around the corner for four.
(18) However, controlling for positive communication or for a parent-oriented motivation for spanking eliminated the negative effects of spanking, suggesting that the negative effects reflected use of spanking as a replacement for positive communication with the child.
(19) Abusive fathers spanked their children significantly more often than the nonabusive fathers, and abusive mothers had the highest frequency of critical statements directed at their children.
(20) Another opening-day bust came from the arm of the Phillies' Cole Hamels, who marked his entry into the upper echelon of pitching salaries (six years for $144m) by getting spanked by Atlanta down at Turner Field.
Swat
Definition:
() imp. of Sweat.
() of Sweat
Example Sentences:
(1) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
(2) In April 2009, he launched the first concerted offensive against the extremists, routing them in the Swat valley in the north-west, before starting the continuing operations in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal area, which runs along the Afghan border.
(3) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
(4) It is a measure of how far his side have come that the Italian was forced to swat aside rumours linking his playmaker Riyad Mahrez with a move to the European champions, Barcelona, at his pre-match press conference.
(5) Police swat teams took an hour to get to Utøya after the first alert was issued, hampered in part by a lack of helicopters.
(6) And Eurie Stamp, a grandfather of 12, who was sitting watching baseball on TV in his pajamas in Farmington, Massachusetts, in January 2011 when a Swat team battered down his door, threw a flashbang device into the room and forced him to lie facedown on the floor.
(7) As pressure grows on the White House to explain failures to prevent a second case of transmission within the US, the president announced a “rapid response Swat team” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would aim to respond to any further infections within 24 hours “to take local hospitals step by step through what needs to be done”.
(8) When the first Swat team was deployed in the late '60s, its target was a single remaining cell of the Black Panthers .
(9) A report that Stan Kroenke had proposed an extra two years was swatted away as “absolutely false … an invention”.
(10) Guerrero trying to close down the ring while Mayweather keeps on the move, occasionally swatting his opponent down if he threatens to get too close.
(11) A normal American could have his home taken away from him due to a dishonest mortgage and no one in Washington blinked – but when a banker calls Treasury in a panic about losing out on some debt, a Swat team of Washington policymakers rushes to the scene.
(12) There are old-school celebrities who see the interview as being a tool to help them, whereas the newer people just think of the celebrity interview as an irritating fly they have to swat.
(13) Within seconds members of the police Swat team had burst in.
(14) A brief exchange between Aitboulahcen, a 26-year-old French-Moroccan national, and a Swat team was recorded during the standoff, with a police officer asking: “Where is your boyfriend?” Seconds before a huge explosion was heard, she replied: “He’s not my boyfriend!” Parts of her spine reportedly landed on a police car.
(15) There needs to be very strong [privacy] protection, but at the same time we also see large numbers of very abusive Swat raids,” he said.
(16) Gavin O'Reilly had dismissed him as a "gnat" he would like to swat but last year his father - INM's largest shareholder, with a 28.5% stake - started to make his peace with him.
(17) Historian Richard Lowry, who interviewed nearly 200 veterans of the Iraq battle, likens it to "a thousand SWAT teams going through the city, clearing criminals out."
(18) One more win now, one more good performance against the sort of team they have swatted aside all season, and the long, often excruciating wait will be over: City will be champions.
(19) They were victims of a swatting attack, a malicious form of hoax where special weapons and tactics (Swat) teams are called to a victim’s home under false pretenses, with potentially deadly results.
(20) Just more than a week later, on 25 January 2014, someone launched a second swatting attack on the same home.