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smashing

[ smash-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

smashing

/ ˈsmæʃɪŋ /

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First recorded in 1825–35; smash + -ing ²

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Will he go for the schoolteacher and abandon the family, leaving behind his smashing dinner suits?

Check: “This atom smashing business is going to herald the final victory of the machine.”

When I was growing up they called Green Day and Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins “alternative pop.”

Those who claim to speak for a vengeful Allah take great delight in smashing idols wherever and whenever they can get to them.

This weekend should have been a smashing success for Johnny Depp.

If she had had "some smashing love affair," as the more romantic Flora suggested, so much the better.

Once even a blue bean (a bullet) made sad work with my head, and my fist has got a deuce of a smashing.

I gathered that he thought something of the boy, and was heating up to the door-smashing stage.

Now good-natured Alfaretta was nothing if not helpful, and quite human enough to enjoy smashing something.

Jim took a few pulls at the strong, black tobacco, and began to reconsider his notion about smashing up the service.

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