smasher

[ smash-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that smashes.
2. a person or thing that is excellent, impressive, extraordinary, or the like:

   That new off-Broadway show is a real smasher.

smasher

/ ˈsmæʃə /

noun

1. informal.
   a person or thing that is very attractive or outstanding

Word History and Origins

Origin of smasher¹

First recorded in 1785–95; smash + -er ¹

Example Sentences

He had seen two or three chiefs at Ezulwini, looking thorough “slouches” in waistcoats and shirt-sleeves and ragged smasher hats.

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Commit an insufferable new stud-smasher to a laundry and note the fate that overtakes it.

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

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

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He was, as he phrased it, an "all-mighty smasher," and would have been a rare man for Congress!

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