Smasher

//smæʃɚ// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something that, or someone who, smashes. countable, uncountable

    "With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher."

  2. 2
    a conspicuous success wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that, or someone who, smashes.; A person employed to break up waste rock. countable, historical, uncountable
  4. 4
    a very attractive or seductive looking woman wordnet
  5. 5
    An attractive person (see also smashing). countable, slang, uncountable

    "You got engaged on the day that I moved out. It's OK / She's a smasher, perfectly suited to the role"

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  1. 6
    a person who smashes something wordnet
  2. 7
    Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper. countable, dated, slang, uncountable
  3. 8
    One who passes counterfeit money. UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

    "The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence."

  4. 9
    The counterfeit money itself. UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

Etymology

From smash + -er.

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