smasher

UK /smæʃɚ/ US /smæʃɚ/
noun 5

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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