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smasher

[ smash-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that smashes.
  2. a person or thing that is excellent, impressive, extraordinary, or the like:

    That new off-Broadway show is a real smasher.



smasher

/ ˈsmæʃə /

noun

  1. informal.
    a person or thing that is very attractive or outstanding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of smasher1

First recorded in 1785–95; smash + -er 1
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Example Sentences

He had seen two or three chiefs at Ezulwini, looking thorough “slouches” in waistcoats and shirt-sleeves and ragged smasher hats.

Commit an insufferable new stud-smasher to a laundry and note the fate that overtakes it.

And now she was discovering what a disorganizer love is, what an anarch among plans, what a smasher of china.

It frequently happens that a good dancer makes a ready “smasher.”

He was, as he phrased it, an "all-mighty smasher," and would have been a rare man for Congress!

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