smacked

“You see him get smacked, get up back and throw touchdowns,” said Cobb.

He had just smacked the flag on the third hole, a 135-yard par three.

Marine General John Kelley, who served as Trump’s Chief of Staff, smacked down such a false equivalence:

And Newsom was in no mood to fight them — or sign any bill that smacked of a tax increase.

Political writer Peter Kaye of the San Diego Union and I were covering Gov. Pat Brown’s last 1966 campaign swing in Los Angeles when our chopper lost power and almost smacked into an apartment building.