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Meaning of smasheroo | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A blockbuster; a movie, play, song, or other form of commercial entertainment that is a smash hit.
    slang
  2. A big success
    broadly, slang
  3. A violent collision.
    slang

Examples

“The third of Neil Simon's Broadway comedy smasheroos to be filmed by Paramount, this is the story of two men, one divorced and one about to be, who become apartment mates ...”
“Taking notes at one of the monthly meetings, when the league chose the shows that would tour on its subscription series in seventeen cities, she admired Mike's loud and brash arguments on behalf of his latest "smasheroo."”
“The good news is that she made her feature-film debut in one of the smasheroos of the season, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.”
“It was his first number one, his first smasheroo, his first block buster, but definitely not his first 45 revolutions per minute.”
“A couple of years ago when grain speculators wanted to unload a bumper crop of wheat, ole Dick Nixon helped arrange a smasheroo of a wheat sale to the Russians.”
“And is my little do tomorrow gonna be a smasheroo, or a smasheroo?”
“As early as the nineteenth century, there were people who insisted that locusts were healthier than pork, but they never became a gastronomic smasheroo in Europe.”
“Afterwards he said his only thought was to get the plane close to the water in case anything happened. It did. "PLOOSHHHHHhhhh-hh-hh-h. What a smasheroo in the drink!”
“Granted it gets a bit slippery when wet, and now and then will give the old smasheroo to a kneecap — but it endures, gentlemen, it endures.”
“You know, these smasheroos really upset my mother. We always seem to get near one of the tiresome things right at the beginning of every trip, and that more or less ruins the whole thing for her.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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