Meaning of smash | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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.”

“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).”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

““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.””

“[…] the saltbush dukkah, avocado and feta smash.”

“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.”

“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 […]”

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