Smasher
noun
Something or someone highly impressive or exceptional.
His new book is a real smasher.
Often appears as...
- real smasher
- absolute smasher
Usage tips
Informal
noun
A person who destroys or breaks something violently.
He has a reputation as a window smasher.
Often appears as...
- window smasher
- record smasher
noun
In sports, a powerful hit or strike.
He scored with a smasher of a shot.
Often appears as...
- smasher of a shot
- serve a smasher
noun
Something or someone highly impressive or exceptional.
His new book is a real smasher.
Often appears as...
- real smasher
- absolute smasher
Usage tips
Informal
noun
A person who destroys or breaks something violently.
He has a reputation as a window smasher.
Often appears as...
- window smasher
- record smasher
noun
In sports, a powerful hit or strike.
He scored with a smasher of a shot.
Often appears as...
- smasher of a shot
- serve a smasher
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Impression
Use when you're really impressed with something and want to emphasize its awesomeness.
The chef's special dessert was a smasher!
Pro Tip 2/3Celebratory Context
Often used to describe someone's achievement or success, like hitting a milestone.
Her graduation party was an absolute smasher!
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Usage
It's casual language, so it's best for conversations among friends, not in a professional setting.
Did you see that dress? What a smasher!
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Impression
Use when you're really impressed with something and want to emphasize its awesomeness.
The chef's special dessert was a smasher!
Pro Tip 2/3Celebratory Context
Often used to describe someone's achievement or success, like hitting a milestone.
Her graduation party was an absolute smasher!
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Usage
It's casual language, so it's best for conversations among friends, not in a professional setting.
Did you see that dress? What a smasher!
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Impression
Use when you're really impressed with something and want to emphasize its awesomeness.
The chef's special dessert was a smasher!
Pro Tip 2/3Celebratory Context
Often used to describe someone's achievement or success, like hitting a milestone.
Her graduation party was an absolute smasher!
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Usage
It's casual language, so it's best for conversations among friends, not in a professional setting.
Did you see that dress? What a smasher!
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How does an atom-smashing...
So what is an atom smasher? It is a device that collides atomic nuclei together at extremely high energy. The most powerful one scientists have ever built can heat matter to the hottest temperatures ever achieved, temperatures last seen at a trillionth of second after the universe began.
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Sheila Patek: Measuring...
is one of the world's best collections of preserved mantis shrimp. And what -- this is serious business for me. So, this -- what I saw, on every single mantis shrimp limb, whether it's a spearer or a smasher, is a beautiful saddle-shaped structure
Video examples
Steve Winter & Alan...
how these were taken over many days in many hours cuz Tigers need water and they're very curious like that little girl right there the little girl yes he's not very little and then smasher
Video examples
How does an atom-smashing...
So what is an atom smasher? It is a device that collides atomic nuclei together at extremely high energy. The most powerful one scientists have ever built can heat matter to the hottest temperatures ever achieved, temperatures last seen at a trillionth of second after the universe began.
Video examples
Sheila Patek: Measuring...
is one of the world's best collections of preserved mantis shrimp. And what -- this is serious business for me. So, this -- what I saw, on every single mantis shrimp limb, whether it's a spearer or a smasher, is a beautiful saddle-shaped structure
Video examples
Steve Winter & Alan...
how these were taken over many days in many hours cuz Tigers need water and they're very curious like that little girl right there the little girl yes he's not very little and then smasher
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Michio Kaku
American Physicist
One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.
Quote examples
Michio Kaku
American Physicist
One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.
Example 1 of 1
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