spankspank /spæŋk/ verb [transitive] 
a spank on the bottom
WORD ORIGINspank
Origin:
1700-1800 From the soundVERB TABLE
spank
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | spank |
| he, she, it | spanks | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | spanked |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have spanked |
| he, she, it | has spanked | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had spanked |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will spank |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have spanked |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am spanking |
| he, she, it | is spanking | |
| you, we, they | are spanking | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was spanking |
| you, we, they | were spanking | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been spanking |
| he, she, it | has been spanking | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been spanking |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be spanking |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been spanking |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Arizona spanked Nevada 100-85.
- Many parents no longer spank their kids as a form of discipline.
- The two boys were spanked and sent to bed without their supper.
- At this point he spanked her bottom.
- He spanked them and he had them spank one another.
- He was spanked and now has to say he is speaking only for himself.
- I can't recall really spanking them.
- She was spanked by the outraged Emperor because, nude and proletarian, she was masquerading as a nymph.
THESAURUSto hit someone
to hit someone quickly and hard with your hand, a stick etc: · He hit him hard in the stomach.· I don’t like to see people hitting a dog.
to hit someone deliberately many times, especially very hard: · The girl had been beaten to death.· He was beating the donkey with a stick.
written to hit someone with your hand or a weapon. Strike is more formal than hit and is mainly used in written English: · Her husband struck her twice across the face.· Police say that the man had been struck on the head.
to hit someone hard with your closed hand, especially in a fight: · I punched him on the nose.· She was screaming and punching him with her fists.
informal to punch someone very hard: · Sometimes I just want to thump him.
to hurt someone badly in a violent attack, by hitting them many times: · If I tell the police, they'll beat me up.· He had been beaten up and tortured with lighted cigarettes.
to hit someone with your open hand, especially because you are angry with them: · They had a big row and she ended up slapping him.
(also smack especially British English) to hit someone, especially a child, with your open hand in order to punish them: · Should a parent ever smack a child?· I don’t agree with smacking.· In those days, children were spanked if they behaved badly.
Longman Language Activatorto hit someone as a punishment to repeatedly hit someone with your hand, with a stick etc as a punishment: · The guards used to regularly beat the prisoners.· Teachers are no longer allowed to beat students who misbehave.beat with: · Slaves were sometimes beaten with sticks or even whipped.
to hit someone repeatedly, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand, on their bottom: · The two boys were spanked and sent to bed without their supper.· Many parents no longer spank their kids as a form of discipline.
also swat American to hit someone, especially a child who has behaved badly, with your open hand on their hand, the backs of their legs, their face etc: · If you don't stop that, I'll smack you!· Slap her hand lightly when she touches something she shouldn't.· He grinned and I wanted to swat him, but he wasn't my son so I didn't.
to hit someone violently and repeatedly with something such as a stick, in order to punish them: · The guards gave the prisoner a beating.give somebody a good/sound beating: · His father took him into the barn and gave him a good beating.
to hit someone very hard with a rope, whip etc especially on their back in order to punish them: · The hostage had terrible scars on his back where he had been whipped.· What kind of a society flogs women simply for saying what they think?
the practice of punishing people, especially children at school, by hitting them with something such as a stick: · In my first year at Hendon School, I had my first taste of corporal punishment.· Corporal punishment is, thankfully, no longer used.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a spanking new (=completely new) conference centre
to hit a child on their bottom with your open hand, as a punishment SYN smack► see thesaurus at hit—spank noun [countable]: a spanking new (=completely new) conference centre a spank on the bottom