<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>moving rapidly and smartly.</li><li>quick and vigorous: a spanking pace.</li><li>blowing briskly: a spanking breeze.</li><li>unusually fine, great, large, etc.; remarkable; distinctive: a spanking monogram in gold embroidery.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>Informal. extremely, strikingly, or remarkably; very: three little girls in spanking new dresses.</li></ul>