Definitions for smasher

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smasher smash·er

Spelling: [smash-er]

IPA: /ˈsmæʃ ər/

Smasher is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in smasher (aehmrss).

Definitions for smasher

noun

1. a person or thing that smashes.
2. a person or thing that is excellent, impressive, extraordinary, or the like:
3. the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
4. the sound of such a smash.
5. a blow, hit, or slap.
6. a destructive collision, as between automobiles.
7. a smashed or shattered condition.
8. a process or state of collapse, ruin, or destruction:
9. financial failure or ruin.
10. Informal. smash hit.
11. a drink made of brandy, or other liquor, with sugar, water, mint, and ice.
12. 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 smasher

First recorded in 1785-95; smash + -er¹

Examples for smasher

Burchester, too, has had a smasher; and I myself have not escaped.

And now she was discovering what a disorganizer love is, what an anarch among plans, what a smasher of china.

In all of them, except the last, I was a maker, not a smasher.

I'm goin' to have a smasher of a party in the fall, and Jerrie'll be just the one to draw.

The lad on him had instructions to come along at top speed, and was nothing loath; he knew his mount was a smasher over a mile.

If you make it twelve and a half cents, you'll have a smasher.

There they go, all together; and smasher, how neatly he carries himself!

Charley says I 'm to go with him, pa; he 's about to try smasher as a leader, and wants me, if anything goes wrong.

But with regard to smasher Mike the newspapers were at a loss.

It frequently happens that a good dancer makes a ready “smasher.”