Usually means: Striking buttocks as punishment, discipline.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. spank: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spank: Merriam-Webster
  3. spank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spank: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spank: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spank, spank: Wordnik
  8. spank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spank: Wiktionary
  10. spank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spank: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spank: Dictionary.com
  14. spank (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spank: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spank, Spank, The Spank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spank: Rhymezone
  20. spank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Spank: American-Britih Dictionary
  23. Spank: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. spank: FreeDictionary.org
  25. spank: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. spank: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spank: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spank: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPANK: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spank, spank, spank, spank, spank, spank: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the spank: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks or other vulnerable body part like the cheeks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.
verb:  (transitive) To soundly defeat, to trounce.
verb:  (transitive) To hit very hard.
noun:  An instance of spanking, separately or part of a multiple blows-beating; a smack, swat, or slap.
noun:  A slapping sound, as produced by spanking.
noun:  (slang, euphemistic) An instance of masturbation.
verb:  (intransitive) To move quickly and nimbly on foot; to stride or run at a brisk pace.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or turn rapidly, as the gears of a machine or the sails of a ship.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To shoot out or throw violently; to hurl or knock out.
noun:  (dialectal) A leap or bound.

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