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Smasher   Listen
noun
Smasher  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.
2.
Anything very large or extraordinary. (Slang)
3.
One who passes counterfeit coin. (Cant, Eng.)






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"Smasher" Quotes from Famous Books



... from an Irish "Paddy," but here's one now. Here in Cork we don't get magazines like Astounding Stories regularly, but I got the May issue to-day and could not stop until I had devoured it from cover to cover. "The Atom Smasher" is a story which I have been hunting for for years. When I had finished it, I had to sit back and leave out all the breath which I was holding in in a prolonged "whew!" If ever I get the luck to ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various

... a smasher!" said Dent. "The door's bound to go if they can get two or three of those ...
— Jack Haydon's Quest • John Finnemore

... issue of 'The Star', Ballaarat, October 6th, 1855, how a well-known digger and now a J.P., did, in a 'Ballaarat smasher,' toast the good exit of a successful money-maker—an active, wide-awake man of business certainly, but nothing else to the diggers of Ballaarat—'Cela n'est pas ...
— The Eureka Stockade • Carboni Raffaello

... lumbering cab drove up Adderley Street to the hotel a squadron of the newly raised South African Light Horse rode past. The men looked very jaunty and well set up with their neat uniforms, bandoliers and "smasher" hats with black cocks' feathers. There has never been the slightest difficulty in raising these irregular bodies of mounted infantry. The doors of their office in Atkinson's Buildings were besieged by a crowd of applicants—very many of them young men who had ...
— With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train • Ernest N. Bennett

... Haviland Hicks, Jr.'s, noisy monologue by seizing that splinter-youth firmly by the scruff of the neck and forcibly hurling him on the davenport. Seeing his loyal class-mate's resemblance to a Grand Central Station baggage-smasher, the irrepressible ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... the 'Skull-smasher' inn, where we stopped to water our horses, a thief attacked us, and then wanted to empty our pockets. I threw him my money and my bracelet, but he wanted to tear this ring from my finger, too. That I would not give ...
— Debts of Honor • Maurus Jokai



Words linked to "Smasher" :   atom smasher, ravisher, smash, hit, smash hit, looker, individual, woman, success, bang, someone, sweetheart, megahit, lulu, sleeper, blockbuster



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