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Smasher   /smˈæʃər/   Listen
Smasher

noun
1.
A person who smashes something.
2.
A very attractive or seductive looking woman.  Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, stunner, sweetheart.
3.
A conspicuous success.  Synonyms: bang, hit, smash, strike.  "That new Broadway show is a real smasher" , "The party went with a bang"



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"Smasher" Quotes from Famous Books



... Saturday's 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 tout-a-fait comme ...
— The Eureka Stockade • Carboni Raffaello
... hideous to the eye, offensive to the ear, and inexpressive to the mind. They are the base coins of language. They bear upon their face no decent superscription. They are put upon the street, fresh from some smasher's den, and not even the newspapers, contemptuous as they are of style, have reason to be proud of them! Nor is there any clear link between them and the meaning thrust upon them. Why should the poor holder of a season-ticket have the grim word "commutation" hung round his neck? Why should ...
— American Sketches - 1908 • Charles Whibley
... discouraged. He was more self-reliant than when nearly a year before he entered the city, and more confident of rubbing along somehow. If he could not sell papers, he could black boots. If wholly without capital, he could haunt the neighborhood of the piers, and seek employment as a baggage-smasher. ...
— The Young Outlaw - or, Adrift in the Streets • Horatio Alger


Words linked to "Smasher" :   blockbuster, adult female, person, someone, mortal, success, somebody, megahit, woman, soul, sleeper, individual, smash hit


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