smack-dab

adverb

ˈsmak-ˈdab 

: exactly, squarely

Synonyms

• due
• exactly
• full
• just
• precisely
• right
• sharp
• squarely

Examples of smack-dab in a Sentence

made reservations at a restaurant that's smack-dab in the center of town

Recent Examples on the Web

Universal: Unlike Disneyland, Universal Hollywood makes a feature of being smack-dab in the middle of North Hollywood. —Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 July 2024

First, there’s the challenge of getting to your small intestine, which is smack-dab in the middle of your GI tract. —Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Oct. 2024

Released smack-dab in the middle of the pandemic, the song sees Charli longing to wildly lose herself in a club, a feeling many of us could relate to at that time. —Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2024

That’s smack-dab on top of the theoretical prediction, seeming to confirm the standard model of cosmology. —Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2024

The 1080p webcam sits smack-dab in the middle of the top bezel. —PCMAG, 25 July 2024

Now the Fieri-fave has opened a second eatery called The Food Republic smack-dab in the middle of Fort Lauderdale’s busy hub, where Sunrise Boulevard and U.S. Highway 1 meet. —Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2024

But the newest tenant, Alara, is something altogether different: a downtown-caliber, fine-dining restaurant smack-dab in the middle of it all. —Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 24 Apr. 2024

Right now, one of them is smack-dab center stage at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Rupert Goold’s production of The Hunt. —Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for smack-dab

• ahab
• cantab
• hijab
• prefab
• ab
• cab
• crab
• dab
• drab
• fab
• gab
• grab

Kids Definition

smack-dab

adverb

ˈsmak-ˈdab

: exactly sense 1b

smack-dab in the middle