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smack dab

or smack-dab

[ smak-dab ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

Informal.

directly; squarely:
smack dab in the middle.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of smack dab¹

First recorded in 1890–95; smack ²( def ) (in the sense “directly, straight”) + dab ¹( def ) (in the sense “a quick, light blow,” used adverbially)

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Films like “All of Us Strangers,” “Happiest Season” and “Of an Age” have attempted to depict the stomach-twisting anxiety of being queer and finding yourself smack dab in the place you tried so hard to get out of, and to varying success.

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Everyone’s favorite analog diarist is smack dab in the middle of a universe ruled by tech.

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We’re smack dab in the middle of 2010 again.

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Smack dab in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the collection of more than five dozen tiny islands are mostly uninhabited, due in no small part to the United States and United Kingdom expelling the Indigenous Chagossians in an ethnic cleansing from 1967 to 1973.

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But Trump has bounced back to a seven-point lead with low/mid-engagement voters, 52%-45% — smack dab in between his 10-point lead over Biden among those voters in May and his three-point lead over Harris in August.

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