smack-dab
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[edit]smack-dab(notcomparable)
- (slang)Exactlyin a place, especially the middle;directly;precisely;dead-center.
- I tossed the water balloon and it landedsmack-dabon the top of his head.
- 2017July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, inThe Onion AV Club[1]:
- Things build and build, and it becomes clearer and clearer that a battle is about to take place. In “Stormborn,” a bang above deck is all the warning we get, and suddenly the Yara Greyjoy fleet issmack dabin the middle of Euron’s Iron Fleet, and the party begins.
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[edit]exactly, directly
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