Meaning of Smasher | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that, or someone who, smashes.
   countable, uncountable
2. A person employed to break up waste rock.
   countable, historical, uncountable
3. An attractive person (see also smashing).
   countable, slang, uncountable
4. Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
   countable, dated, slang, uncountable
5. One who passes counterfeit money.
   UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
6. The counterfeit money itself.
   UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.”

“You got engaged on the day that I moved out. It's OK / She's a smasher, perfectly suited to the role”

“The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.”

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