Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which smashes or breaks.
- n. A pitman.
- n. Anything astounding, extraordinary, or very large and unusual; anything that decides or settles a question; a settler.
- n. One who passes counterfeit money.
- n. A counterfeit coin.
- n. A small gooseberry pie.
Wiktionary
- n. Something that, or someone who, smashes
- n. slang An attractive person (see also smashing)
- n. slang, dated Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
- n. UK, slang, obsolete One who passes counterfeit coins.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.
- n. Slang Anything very large or extraordinary.
- n. Cant, Eng. One who passes counterfeit coin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who smashes something
- n. a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- n. a conspicuous success
Etymologies
- smash + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A 'smasher' -- that's the word-a coiner of false money.”
“Players take turns flicking or sliding a small opaque pyramid (called the smasher) into a cluster of pyramids (called the atom).”
“Rifles, with gay ribbons round their "smasher" hats.”
“The other, lean and brown and knotty, held his riding-cane and the other glove, and a grey "smasher" hat.”
“She was armed with 98 guns on three gun decks with more bristling from her quarterdeck and forecastle, not least the murderous carronades, the short but immensely powerful gun known then as the 'smasher' for the destruction it caused at close range.”
“I loved the original Clash of the Titans and i think the 3D remake of the classic will be a record smasher.”
“On the wall of an internal staircase, a photograph of The Who's guitar wizard and smasher Pete Townshend induces an anticipatory shiver.”
“One of the more descriptive common names for the crested caracara, incidentally, is the quebrantahuesos, literally the bone-smasher!”
Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits.
“You made this book “a smasher,” and I enjoyed most of our time together, on the road and in L.A.”
“I opened a news site in my browser to distract myself and read about the unveiling of a high-tech atom smasher.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘smasher’.
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In the Collieries
A collection of coal mining and colliery terms. Some British, some Scots, and some, Other. Many terms are quite to the point; others colorful and imaginative.
Also see Middlesmith's li...fire-damp, black-damp, choke-damp, skip, basket, gallery, Gregory lamp, pit, balance, balancer, tenter, coupler and 313 more...
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Fubbery and Blaflum
An arcade of artifice and deception.
fubbery, blaflum, Drunken Fist, escamoterie, archdeceiver, legerdemain, prestidigitation, prestidigital, glaik, imposture, fraud, disguise and 78 more...
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The Legend of Zelda
dungeon, ocarina, rupee, triforce, ganon, link, ganondorf, impa, hyrule, majora, mask, temple and 194 more...
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On The Menu
diver scallop, grilled porcini, lavender-fennel p..., roasted cranberri..., carmelized walnut..., cardamom-molasses..., bittersweet choco..., rosemary flatbread, eggplant veloute, fennel gratin, rollmops, jugged hare and 122 more...
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Cannon Names
A place for me to keep the names I see on cannons. Leave me alone. I already know I'm a geek.
"'Nothing can exceed the cannon's noble roar,' said the gunner. 'Squibs and burning tar-ba...sudden death, jumping billy, wilful murder, towser, true blue, viper, mad anthony, bulldog, nancy's fancy, belcher, tom cribb, game chicken and 13 more...
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hernesheir A small gooseberry pie. --from the definitions. Feb 6, 2013