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smasher
/smæʃɚ/
noun 5
Collocations
3ADJ.
bad, good
PREP.
about, from
ADV.
perfectly
Definitions
noun
1
Something that, or someone who, smashes.
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
Something that, or someone who, smashes.
3
An attractive person (see also smashing).
You got engaged on the day that I moved out. It's OK / She's a smasher, perfectly suited to the role
4
Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
5
One who passes counterfeit money.
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.
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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
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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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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) ab
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A volleyball player must be a good smasher.
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She's a smasher.
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