Definitions for smash

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IPA: /smæʃ/

Smash is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in smash (ahmss).

Definitions for smash

noun

1. the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
2. the sound of such a smash.
3. a blow, hit, or slap.
4. a destructive collision, as between automobiles.
5. a smashed or shattered condition.
6. a process or state of collapse, ruin, or destruction:
7. financial failure or ruin.
8. Informal. smash hit.
9. a drink made of brandy, or other liquor, with sugar, water, mint, and ice.
10. Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis. an overhead or overhand stroke in which the ball or shuttlecock is hit with a hard, downward motion causing it to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle. a ball hit with such a stroke.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or constituting a great success:

verb (used with object)

1. to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter:
2. to defeat, disappoint, or disillusion utterly.
3. to hit or strike (someone or something) with force.
4. to overthrow or destroy something considered as harmful:
5. to ruin financially:
6. Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis. to hit (a ball or shuttlecock) overhead or overhand with a hard downward motion, causing the shot to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.

verb (used without object)

1. to break to pieces from a violent blow or collision.
2. to dash with a shattering or crushing force or with great violence; crash (usually followed by against, into, through, etc.).
3. to become financially ruined or bankrupt (often followed by up).
4. to flatten and compress the signatures of a book in a press before binding.

Origin of smash

1690-1700; perhaps blend of smack² and mash¹

Examples for smash

Think sexual liberation, 1970s groups like the Gay Liberation Front, and slogans like “smash the church/smash the state.”

At the end of the session, when we listened back to all we had laid down that day, I was sure I had a smash hit.

Then there were those songs that were either too half-baked or half-hearted to even fool us into turning them into smash hits.

Ask your sister to marry me first, and smash you up afterwards.

Don't go to smash, Dick, just at the beginning of your life.

Sid Vicious is stomping all over Steve Jones, about to smash in his guitar (again).

Every aspiring DJ could smash and grab himself a mixer and some turntables.

I felt an absurd desire to smash it, for the impudent thing had been running all the while.

You'll be joggled in this crowd, an' break 'em all to smash.

I am sorry he made such a smash at last, but it is all that could be expected.