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Smasher
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- 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 a conspicuous success wordnet
- 3 Something that, or someone who, smashes.; A person employed to break up waste rock. countable, historical, uncountable
- 4 a very attractive or seductive looking woman wordnet
- 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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- 6 a person who smashes something wordnet
- 7 Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper. countable, dated, slang, uncountable
- 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."
- 9 The counterfeit money itself. UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
Etymology
From smash + -er.
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