Preposition: of

• desperation: MAG Director of Public Affairs Trevor Baird said, " The reasoning behind the threat smacks of desperation.

• hypocrisy: But the cultural embargo on all things progressive increasingly smacks of hypocrisy.

• arrogance: Many will disagree with this assessment, thinking it smacks of western arrogance.

• correctness: They say the authority is obsessed with hitting targets and that the move smacks of political correctness.

• attempt: It all smacks of another desperate attempt to have a dig at Chelsea.

Object

• gob: I was gob smacked to find a spam message in my guest book.

• ass: Anthony, with a face like a smacked ass.

• bang: The garden of No 10 is a delightful oasis smack bang in the center of town.

• ball: Chris parried the ball to Tom Kent who duly smacked the ball down the wing to Aidan Gregory to set up a counter attack.

• shot: There were further opportunities: Trundle shaved a post and Connor smacked a shot against the woodwork.

• bottom: Despite its comic book stylings, anybody expecting an easy ride from the game will come away with a smacked bottom.

Followed by a transitive particle

• off: The ball, however, smacked off the left upright and was hacked clear.

Modifying Another Word

• all: The sharp suits, perfect shoes, spiffy watch, it all smacks of the well dressed " C " Level look.

• rather: Such thinking rather smacks of the historical determinism that Third Way thinkers associate with the 'old left ' and claim to have moved beyond.

• much: It smacked too much of communism, of some kind of social, liberal gospel.

• just: Really, I'd rather just smack my head into a tree than watch somebody paint a house.

Preposition: in

• mouth: Because knowing this fact may earn him a smack in the mouth?

• middle: That is, until she finds herself smack in the middle of an impromptu rescue attempt by a man she had thought long dead.

• face: But like all smacks in the face you don't want them to keep on happening.

• break: Swansea's Mark Tucker thumped Wrexham's Gareth Coppack 3-1 in their quarter, smacking in breaks of 46, 51 and 56.