smash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: smashes
form: smashing
form: smashed
form: smashed
Etymology: Uncertain, probably of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Swedish smask (“to smack with the lips”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”).
Senses: examples: text: The demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble.
text: The flying rock smashed the window to pieces.
text: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
text: Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref: 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
text: We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.
ref: 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:
glosses: To break (something brittle) violently.
examples: text: The crockery smashed as it hit the floor.
glosses: To be destroyed by being smashed.
examples: text: He smashed his head against the table.
text: Bonds smashed the ball 467 feet, the second longest home run in the history of the park.
glosses: To hit extremely hard.
examples: text: The news smashed any hopes of a reunion.
glosses: To ruin completely and suddenly.
examples: text: The Indians smashed the Yankees 22-0.
text: I really smashed that English exam.
glosses: To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
examples: text: I slowly smashed the modeling clay flat with the palm of my hand.
text: Using a fork, smash the avocado with all the remaining ingredients.
ref: 2016, Doreen Virtue, Jenny Ross, Veggie Mama, page 154:
glosses: To deform through continuous pressure.
examples: text: Would you smash her?
text: Farmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch only smashes with farmers?
ref: 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live
text: In a leaked video, Keys also asked pundit Jamie Redknapp of an ex girlfriend: “Did you smash it?”
ref: 2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 3, column 4:
glosses: To have sex with.
examples: text: "What would have become of the gems had the bank smashed?" asked Marie in a timid and rather tearful voice, for it was a terrible thought to think that her dreams might dissolve into thin air.
ref: 1910, Fergus Hume, The Peacock of Jewels:
glosses: Synonym of go to smash (“to go to ruin; to fail disastrously”).
synonyms: word: go to smash
extra: to go to ruin; to fail disastrously
glosses: To pass counterfeit money.
Synonyms: sense: break violently
word: dash
sense: break violently
word: shatter
sense: be destroyed by being smashed
word: shatter
sense: hit extremely hard
word: pound
word: thump
word: wallop
word: hit
sense: ruin completely and suddenly
word: dash
sense: defeat overwhelmingly
word: slaughter
sense: defeat overwhelmingly
word: trounce
sense: have sexual intercourse with
word: coitize
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
Derived terms: all to smash
brandy-smash
cake smash
forearm smash
go to smash
keyboard smash
megasmash
smash and dash
smash and grab
smash-and-grab
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smash down
smashed
smashed potato
smashed potatoes
smash hit
smashing
smash into
smash it
smash-mouth
smash one's face in
smash one's head
smash product
smash room
smash someone's face in
smash someone's head
smash the stack
smash up
whole smash