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Compare Swedish smask (“a light explosion, crack, report”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.\nSynonym: crash\nI could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding." }, { "mean": "(Britain, colloquial) A traffic collision.\nSynonym: crash\nThe driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash." }, { "mean": "(colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc).\nSynonyms: hit, smash hit\nThis new show is sure to be a smash.\n2007 June 26, Jackie Collins, Drop Dead Beautiful, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 440:The dress is a smash.\n2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Daily Telegraph‎: 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 a smash on all fronts – wander to centre stage.\n2019 May 1, Ginaluca Russo, “Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet”, in Teen Vogue‎:All together, this look is a smash in our books." }, { "mean": "(tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.\nA smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.\n2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport‎:A Nadal forehand into the net gave Djokovic the set and the Spaniard appeared rattled, firing a smash over the baseline in a rare moment of promise at 30-30 at the start of the third." }, { "mean": "(colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.\n1845, 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 a smash, — is he not to be held a trader within the bankrupt law, because no one can swear that he has traded for four months?" }, { "mean": "(colloquial, archaic) A disaster; a bad situation.\n1838, Boz , 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 a smash,” observed Toby, biting his lips. “There’s more than one will go with this.”" }, { "mean": "A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink." }, { "mean": "(aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.\n2008, Tom Clancy; Chuck Horner, Every Man A Tiger‎:Then, for Horner's red team, it became just a matter of gaining sufficient smash (airspeed) to convert on them and film them with gun cameras." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To break (something brittle) violently.\nThe demolition team smashed the buildings to rubble.\nThe flying rock smashed the window to pieces.\n1895 May 7, H G Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →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, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.\n2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.\n2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.\nThe crockery smashed as it hit the floor." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To hit extremely hard.\nHe smashed his head against the table.\nBonds smashed the ball 467 feet, the second longest home run in the history of the park." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.\nThe news smashed any hopes of a reunion." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.\nThe Indians smashed the Yankees 22-0.\nI really smashed that English exam." }, { "mean": "(transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure.\nI slowly smashed the modeling clay flat with the palm of my hand.\n2016, Doreen Virtue, Jenny Ross, Veggie Mama (page 154)\nUsing a fork, smash the avocado with all the remaining ingredients." }, { "mean": "(transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.\nWould you smash her?\n2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live:\nFarmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch only smashes with farmers?" } ] }, { "name": "Related_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "go to smash\nsmash and dash\nsmash and grab\nsmash hit\nsmash into\nsmash up\nsmashed\nsmashing" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "관련_용어", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }