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Meanings of run smack in English

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Usage of run smack in English
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As I round the corner onto Starowislna Street, I run smack into a wall.
The kommandant's girl
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Now, the GOP's evangelical base has run smack dab up against the party's financial base -corporate America.
Reuters
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And when she did, she'd run smack into the marines now deploying in a pincer movement around her.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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I discovered that a few more kilometers down the road, I run smack into a giant game reserve.
The South African
5
For all of the lovely technology, though, the divers still run smack into the limitations of the human body.
Wired
6
The wall is so transparent, Finnick and I run smack into it and bounce back onto the jungle floor.
Catching Fire
7
I round the corner and run smack into Dix, standing like a golem in the middle of my living room.
Year's best sf 15
8
They was two rocks somewhere; and if you didn't hit one, you was pretty sure to run smack on the other.
Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays
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For a bone-jarring second he thought he was back on the football field and had run smack dab into one of those huge linebackers.
Swan Song
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Why, you've run smack into an old city, and you'll have either to curve the tunnel to one side, or start a new one.
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes
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If Sadako's hatred had radiated straight up out of the well, it would have run smack into the TV and VCR in the cabin above.
Spiral
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No material object had stopped it, but from the point of view of dynamics it had run smack into a cliff four thousand miles high...
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
13
Scarlett escaped into the hallway -andpractically ran smack into a familiar figure.
Sweet Little Lies
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I almost ran smack into Detective Kobrinski, who was coming to fetch me.
A fugitive truth: an emma fielding mystery
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That instant he ran smack into the cloud of bayberry perfume.
Ghosts
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By doing so, he avoided running smack into a pileup around the bend.
BBC
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