From ablend ofsmack +‎mash. CompareSwedishsmask(“to smack with the lips”), dialectalSwedishsmaska(“to smack, kiss”),Danishsmaske(“to smack with the lips”),Low Germansmaksen(“to smack with the lips, kiss”).

• IPA^(key):/smæʃ/

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smash (countable anduncountable,pluralsmashes)

1. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.

   Synonym:crash

   I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horriblesmash of cars colliding.

   The display cabinet hit the floor with asmash.

2. (UK,Ireland,colloquial) A traffic collision.

   Synonym:crash

   The driver and two passengers were badly injured in thesmash.

3. (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).

   Synonyms:hit,smash hit

   This new show is sure to be asmash.

   • 2007 June 26,Jackie Collins,Drop Dead Beautiful, St. Martin's Publishing Group,→ISBN,page440:

     The dress is asmash.

   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, inThe Daily Telegraph‎^[1]:

     […]Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel asmash on all fronts – wander to centre stage.

   • 2019 May 1, Ginaluca Russo, “Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet”, inTeen Vogue‎^[2]:

     All together, this look is asmash in our books.

4. (tennis) A very hardoverhead shot hit sharply downward.

   Asmash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.

   • 2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, inBBC Sport‎^[3]:

     ANadal forehand into the net gaveDjokovic the set and the Spaniard appeared rattled, firing asmash over the baseline in a rare moment of promise at 30-30 at the start of the third.

5. (colloquial,archaic) Abankruptcy.
   • 1845, Basil Montagu, Edward Erastus Deacon, John Peter De Gex,Reports of Cases in Bankruptcy:

     Supposing a man has for the space of a month carried on trade in a showy shop in Cheapside, and then comes asmash, — is he not to be held a trader within the bankrupt law, because no one can swear that he has traded for four months?

6. (colloquial,archaic) Adisaster; a bad situation.
   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym;Charles Dickens],Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume(please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London:Richard Bentley, […],→OCLC:

     “There’s nowhere else to go to now, for the people at the Cripples are all in custody, and the bar of the ken—I went up there and see it with my own eyes—is filled with traps.”
     “This is asmash,” observed Toby, biting his lips. “There’s more than one will go with this.”

7. Amashedfoodstuff.
   • 2017, Charles Rawlings-Way, Brett Atkinson,Lonely Planet Discover Australia:

     […] the saltbush dukkah, avocado and fetasmash.

8. A kind ofjulepcocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
9. (aviation,informal)Airspeed;dynamic pressure.
   • 2008, Tom Clancy, Chuck Horner,Every Man A Tiger‎^[4]:

     Then, for Horner's red team, it became just a matter of gaining sufficientsmash (airspeed) to convert on them and film them with gun cameras.

10. (uncountable,archaic)Destruction.
    • 1881–1882,Robert Louis Stevenson,Treasure Island, London; Paris:Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883,→OCLC:

      I went back with him to the Admiral Benbow, and you cannot imagine a house in such a state ofsmash; the very clock had been thrown down by these fellows in their furious hunt after my mother and myself;[…]

    • 1857, Thomas Hughes,Tom Brown's School Days:

      The door panels were in a normal state ofsmash, but the frame of the door resisted all besiegers, and behind it the owner carried on his varied pursuits[…]

• → Czech:smeč
• → Serbo-Croatian:smeč
• → Turkish:smaç

smash (third-person singular simple presentsmashes,present participlesmashing,simple past and past participlesmashed)

1. (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.

   The demolition teamsmashed the buildings to rubble.

   The flying rocksmashed the window to pieces.

   • 1895 May 29,H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, inThe Time Machine: An Invention, London:William Heinemann,→OCLC:

     Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, andsmashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.

   • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, page28:

     Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrentssmashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

   • 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, inRAIL, number947, page33:

     We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was bysmashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.

2. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.

   The crockerysmashed as it hit the floor.

3. (transitive) To hit extremely hard.

   Hesmashed his head against the table.

   Bondssmashed the ball 467 feet, the second longest home run in the history of the park.

4. (transitive,figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.

   The newssmashed any hopes of a reunion.

5. (transitive,figuratively) To defeatoverwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.

   The Indianssmashed the Yankees 22-0.

   I reallysmashed that English exam.

6. (transitive,US) To deform through continuous pressure.

   I slowlysmashed the modeling clay flat with the palm of my hand.

   • 2016, Doreen Virtue, Jenny Ross,Veggie Mama, page154:

     Using a fork,smash the avocado with all the remaining ingredients.

7. (transitive,slang,vulgar) To havesex with.

   Would yousmash her?

   • 2020 November 7,Dave Chappelle onSaturday Night Live:

     Farmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch onlysmashes with farmers?

   • 2023 June 29,Metro, London, page 3, column 4:

     In a leaked video, Keys also asked pundit Jamie Redknapp of an ex girlfriend: “Did yousmash it?”

8. (intransitive,slang,archaic)Synonym ofgo to smash(“to go to ruin; to fail disastrously”)
   • 1910, Fergus Hume,The Peacock of Jewels:

     "What would have become of the gems had the banksmashed?" asked Marie in a timid and rather tearful voice, for it was a terrible thought to think that her dreams might dissolve into thin air.

9. (UK,Ireland,slang,obsolete) Topasscounterfeitmoney.

• (break violently):dash,shatter
• (be destroyed by being smashed):shatter
• (hit extremely hard):pound,thump,wallop; see alsoThesaurus:hit
• (ruin completely and suddenly):dash
• (defeat overwhelmingly):slaughter,trounce
• (have sexual intercourse with):coitize,go to bed with,sleep with; see alsoThesaurus:copulate with

• → Catalan:esmaixar

• HMSAS,SAHMs,Sahms,Shams,shams

Borrowed fromEnglishsmash.

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smash m (pluralsmashs)

1. (tennis)smash

• smasher

• “smash”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsmash.

smash m (invariable)

1. smash (tennis shot)

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishsmash.

smash m (pluralsmashes)

1. (tennis)smash(overhead shot hit sharply downward)

smash n (pluralsmash-uri)

1. Alternative form ofsmeș