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smash-up

[smash-uhp]

smash-up

[smash-uhp]
noun
a complete smash, especially a wreck of one or more vehicles.

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase smash up
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smash-up
 
n
1.  a bad collision, esp of cars
 
vb
2.  (tr, adverb) to damage to the point of complete destruction: they smashed the place up

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