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smasher

  • /smæʃɚ/

noun smashers

  1. countable, uncountable 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
  2. countable, historical, uncountable A person employed to break up waste rock.
  3. countable, slang, uncountable 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. countable, dated, slang, uncountable Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
  5. UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable 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.
  6. UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable The counterfeit money itself.

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@misc{smasher_2026,
  title = {smasher},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smasher},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}