Definitions for smash-up

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smash-up smash-up

Spelling: [smash-uhp]

IPA: /ˈsmæʃˌʌp/

Smash-Up is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in smash-up (-ahmpssu).

Definitions for smash-up

noun

1. a complete smash, especially a wreck of one or more vehicles.
2. the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
3. the sound of such a smash.
4. a blow, hit, or slap.
5. a destructive collision, as between automobiles.
6. a smashed or shattered condition.
7. a process or state of collapse, ruin, or destruction:
8. financial failure or ruin.
9. Informal. smash hit.
10. a drink made of brandy, or other liquor, with sugar, water, mint, and ice.
11. 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-up

1855-60, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase smash up

Examples for smash-up

As they learned later a defective rail had caused the smash-up.

The Kid confessed to clear his pal who was only slightly injured in the smash-up.

Which means that they do a smash-up job of planning that extra special, over-the-top anniversary or birthday extravaganza.

Then came the smash-up at Avonmouth, and my mother liked them less and less.

Not many could have been in a smash-up like that and come out unharmed.

Why, the smash-up of the Sisters' title,—didn't you hear that?

This runaway and smash-up was something not reckoned on by Bunol.

Whether he would be a tower of strength in a smash-up is not so easily divined.

"Skid, collision, run-over, smash-up—" Merry began helpfully.

In this case there was a "smash-up," for Tom James was not always sleeping and drinking.