smash
IPA: smˈæʃ
noun
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (Britain, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
- (colloquial, archaic) A disaster; a bad situation.
- A mashed foodstuff.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
- (aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
- (uncountable, archaic) Destruction.
verb
- (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- (transitive) To hit extremely hard.
- (transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- (transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (intransitive, slang, archaic) Synonym of go to smash (“to go to ruin; to fail disastrously”)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) To pass counterfeit money.
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Examples of "smash" in Sentences
- He was a terrific learner and now is a regular at the annual "pumkin smash".
- I'm letting go of it as fast as I can, and a smash is the quickest way to let go.
- They put me first, promoted me first from weaving to what they call a smash hand.
- Pharis: They put me first, promoted me first from weaving to what they call a smash hand.
- All of that only to have the GOP and mostly McCain smash my loyalty into a million tiny little pieces.
- Indeed, the Israelis are saying that they need certainly several more days to what they call smash Hezbollah's capabilities.
- It bursts like a rainstorm, sheet upon sheet, _smash, smash, smash_, with one or two more of the heavier shells punctuating the shower of the lighter ones.
- And he took no time to once again smash neoliberal dogma; "there can be sustainable social and economic growth side by side with a functional democratic process".
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