Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which smashes or breaks.
- noun A pitman.
- noun Anything astounding, extraordinary, or very large and unusual; anything that decides or settles a question; a settler.
- noun One who passes counterfeit money.
- noun A counterfeit coin.
- noun A small gooseberry pie.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.
- noun Slang Anything very large or extraordinary.
- noun Cant, Eng. One who passes counterfeit coin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that, or someone who,
smashes - noun slang An
attractive person (see alsosmashing ) - noun slang, dated Anything very large or extraordinary; a
whopper . - noun UK, slang, obsolete One who
passes counterfeit coins .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who smashes something
- noun a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- noun a conspicuous success
Etymologies
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Examples
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A 'smasher' -- that's the word-a coiner of false money.
The Doings of Raffles Haw Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Players take turns flicking or sliding a small opaque pyramid (called the smasher) into a cluster of pyramids (called the atom).
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Players take turns flicking or sliding a small opaque pyramid (called the smasher) into a cluster of pyramids (called the atom).
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Rifles, with gay ribbons round their "smasher" hats.
With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train Ernest N. Bennett
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The other, lean and brown and knotty, held his riding-cane and the other glove, and a grey "smasher" hat.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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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.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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On the wall of an internal staircase, a photograph of The Who's guitar wizard and smasher Pete Townshend induces an anticipatory shiver.
The Government and the Guitar Man Nancy deWolf Smith 2011
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One of the more descriptive common names for the crested caracara, incidentally, is the quebrantahuesos, literally the bone-smasher!
Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits. 2009
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One of the more descriptive common names for the crested caracara, incidentally, is the quebrantahuesos, literally the bone-smasher!
Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits. 2009
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I loved the original Clash of the Titans and i think the 3D remake of the classic will be a record smasher.
hernesheir commented on the word smasher
A small gooseberry pie. --from the definitions.
February 7, 2013