smack talk
verb1
Slang To talk in an insulting way intended to irritate or annoy someone.
- I smartassed and smack-talked half of the interview, but as I relaxed a bit more and genuinely talked with them, a strange thing happened.2012, Storm Large, Crazy Enough: A Memoir:
- Maybe we’ll playfully 'smack-talk a fellow friend, or commiserate about some schleppy aspect of parenthood.2025 May 25, Sam Graham-Felsen, “Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 May 2025: