smasher
IPA: smˈæʃɝ
noun
- Something that, or someone who, smashes.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to break up waste rock.
- (slang) An attractive person (see also smashing).
- (slang, dated) Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) One who passes counterfeit coins.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) The counterfeit money itself.
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Examples of "smasher" in Sentences
- Rifles, with gay ribbons round their "smasher" hats.
- A 'smasher' -- that's the word-a coiner of false money.
- The other, lean and brown and knotty, held his riding-cane and the other glove, and a grey "smasher" hat.
- I loved the original Clash of the Titans and i think the 3D remake of the classic will be a record smasher.
- Players take turns flicking or sliding a small opaque pyramid (called the smasher) into a cluster of pyramids (called the atom).
- One of the more descriptive common names for the crested caracara, incidentally, is the quebrantahuesos, literally the bone-smasher!
- On the wall of an internal staircase, a photograph of The Who's guitar wizard and smasher Pete Townshend induces an anticipatory shiver.
- She was armed with 98 guns on three gun decks with more bristling from her quarterdeck and forecastle, not least the murderous carronades, the short but immensely powerful gun known then as the 'smasher' for the destruction it caused at close range.
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