[
UK
/smˈæʃɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsmæʃɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsmæʃɝ/ ]
NOUN
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a conspicuous success
that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career
that new Broadway show is a real smasher
the party went with a bang - a person who smashes something
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
How To Use smasher In A Sentence
- Now physicists say they have used one of the most sophisticated pieces of string theory to predict properties of the ultradense matter created in an atom smasher in Long Island, N.Y. Speedlinking 3/5/07
- With a super-duper particle smasher, physicists might be able to simulate the earliest moments of the cosmos.
- A plausible explanation may be that, when - oo occurs as a slang suffix rather than an infix (as in superoo for super or smasheroo for smash (er)), the primary stress of the word shifts from the first syllable to the last. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
- The 1968 allusion is not superficial: the images these girls are summoning, just as much as the van-smashers did, are pictures of revolution ? the real thing, in its romantic and large-minded soixante-huitard form. Student protests: the riot girls
- Michigan State University is the site of a very powerful atom smasher, called a cyclotron.
- Shaeron has sent the message to horrified mirror smashers: ‘Please don't bin them’ because she needs the pieces for her latest creation.
- I was on the first row - spiker, smasher. Times, Sunday Times
- `Because you think the daughter a smasher -- and you're smitten. THE GOLDEN LION
- Sean Howe's book Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics is replete with writerly confessions.
- But he died at 37, and left an idea of the poet not just as an outsider, but also as an iconoclast, a smasher of images, a sexual adventurer, a ‘conduit of feeling’.
