smash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
tennis
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: smashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.
The display cabinet hit the floor with a smash.
gloss: A traffic collision.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash.
The footage of this scene has been re-used in several later films where a good, convincing train smash was required, notably in "Seven Sinners" (1937).
gloss: Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: This new show is sure to be a smash.
The dress is a smash.
[…]Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel a smash on all fronts – wander to centre stage.
All together, this look is a smash in our books.
gloss: A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.
A Nadal forehand into the net gave Djokovic the set and the Spaniard appeared rattled, firing a smash over the baseline in a rare moment of promise at 30-30 at the start of the third.
gloss: A bankruptcy.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Supposing a man has for the space of a month carried on trade in a showy shop in Cheapside, and then comes a smash, — is he not to be held a trader within the bankrupt law, because no one can swear that he has traded for four months?
gloss: A disaster; a bad situation.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: “There’s nowhere else to go to now, for the people at the Cripples are all in custody, and the bar of the ken—I went up there and see it with my own eyes—is filled with traps.”
“This is a smash,” observed Toby, biting his lips. “There’s more than one will go with this.”
gloss: A mashed foodstuff.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the saltbush dukkah, avocado and feta smash.
gloss: A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Then, for Horner's red team, it became just a matter of gaining sufficient smash (airspeed) to convert on them and film them with gun cameras.
gloss: Destruction.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: I went back with him to the Admiral Benbow, and you cannot imagine a house in such a state of smash; the very clock had been thrown down by these fellows in their furious hunt after my mother and myself; […]
The door panels were in a normal state of smash, but the frame of the door resisted all besiegers, and behind it the owner carried on his varied pursuits […]
gloss: To break (something brittle) violently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble.
The flying rock smashed the window to pieces.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To be destroyed by being smashed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The crockery smashed as it hit the floor.
gloss: To hit extremely hard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He smashed his head against the table.
Bonds smashed the ball 467 feet, the second longest home run in the history of the park.
gloss: To ruin completely and suddenly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The news smashed any hopes of a reunion.
gloss: To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The Indians smashed the Yankees 22-0.
I really smashed that English exam.
gloss: To deform through continuous pressure.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: I slowly smashed the modeling clay flat with the palm of my hand.
Using a fork, smash the avocado with all the remaining ingredients.
gloss: To have sex with.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: Would you smash her?
Farmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch only smashes with farmers?
In a leaked video, Keys also asked pundit Jamie Redknapp of an ex girlfriend: “Did you smash it?”
gloss: Synonym of go to smash (“to go to ruin; to fail disastrously”).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
slang
examples: "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.
gloss: To pass counterfeit money.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
obsolete
slang
Synonyms: thump
wallop
go to bed with
sleep with
Derived words: all to smash
brandy-smash
cake smash
forearm smash
go to smash
kersmash
keyboard smash
keysmash
megasmash
smashable
smash and dash
smash-and-grab
smash and grab
smash burger
smash cake
smash cut
smash down
smashed
smashed potato
smashed potatoes
smasheroo
smash hit
smashie
smashing
smash into
smash it
smash-mouth
smash one's face in
smash one's head
smashpad
smash product
smashproof
smash room
smash someone's face in
smash someone's head
smash the stack
smash up
smush
whole smash
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