Usually means: Striking buttocks as punishment, discipline.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spanking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spanking: Merriam-Webster
  3. spanking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spanking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spanking: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spanking: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spanking, spanking: Wordnik
  8. spanking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spanking: Wiktionary
  10. spanking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spanking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spanking: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spanking: Dictionary.com
  14. spanking (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spanking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spanking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spanking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spanking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spanking: Rhymezone
  20. Spanking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spanking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Spanking: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. spanking: FreeDictionary.org
  24. spanking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. spanking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spanking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spanking: Merck Manuals
  2. spanking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  2. spanking: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spanking, spanking, spanking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spanking: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spanking: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Fast and energetic.
adjective:  (often nautical) Brisk and fresh.
adverb:  (colloquial, now usually with “new”) An intensifier.
noun:  (uncountable) A form of physical punishment in which a beating is applied to the buttocks.
noun:  (countable) An incident of such punishment, or such physical act in a non-punitive context, such as a birthday spanking.

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