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smash

Pronunciation: /smæʃ/

The English word “smash” has 19 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
  2. A traffic collision.
  3. Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).
  4. A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
  5. A bankruptcy.
  6. A disaster; a bad situation.
  7. A mashed foodstuff.
  8. A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
  9. Airspeed; dynamic pressure.
  10. Destruction.

verb

  1. To break (something brittle) violently.
  2. To be destroyed by being smashed.
  3. To hit extremely hard.
  4. To ruin completely and suddenly.
  5. To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
  6. To deform through continuous pressure.
  7. To have sex with.
  8. Synonym of go to smash (“to go to ruin; to fail disastrously”).
  9. To pass counterfeit money.

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”).

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