smack talk
(also smack talking)
noun informal
Insulting speech, especially when intended to irritate or annoy someone: a game like this promotes smack talk...
- The smack-talk between Kenyon and 'Toine is starting already.
- On a related note, I also play Fantasy Baseball, where you and your buddies draft twenty real-life layers and earn points based on their performances over a season - lots of good, old-fashioned smack-talk and wheelin' and dealin'.
- What do you make of all the smack-talk between King Kamali and Craig Titus?
verb [no object] (smack-talk)
Use insulting speech, especially to irritate or annoy someone: I’m here to smack-talk with two old college pals (as adjective smack-talking) just another story on smack-talking celebs...
- Nevertheless, in our regular Sunday class just prior to the race, the boys were smack-talking about how they were going to destroy their old man teacher on the coming Wednesday evening.
- Neal Henderson, my coach, and I were smack talking about the Iowa vs. Penn St game Sat night.
- The ability to smack talk is a critical skill to being a successful fantasy sports coach.
Derivatives
smack talker
- "It's like this," King responds when I ask how his rep as a smack-talker came about.
- Dillon and Central fans have some of the best smack talkers on here.
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