to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
2.
to defeat, disappoint, or disillusion utterly.
3.
to hit or strike (someone or something) with force.
4.
to overthrow or destroy something considered as harmful: They smashed the drug racket.
5.
to ruin financially: The depression smashed him.
6.
Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis.to hit (a ball or shuttlecock) overhead or overhand with a hard downward motion, causing the shot to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.
verb (used without object)
7.
to break to pieces from a violent blow or collision.
8.
to dash with a shattering or crushing force or with great violence; crash (usually followed by against, into, through, etc.).
9.
to become financially ruined or bankrupt (often followed by up ).
10.
to flatten and compress the signatures of a book in a press before binding.
noun
11.
the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
12.
the sound of such a smash.
13.
a blow, hit, or slap.
14.
a destructive collision, as between automobiles.
15.
a smashed or shattered condition.
16.
a process or state of collapse, ruin, or destruction: the total smash that another war would surely bring.
a drink made of brandy, or other liquor, with sugar, water, mint, and ice.
20.
Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis.
a.
an overhead or overhand stroke in which the ball or shuttlecock is hit with a hard, downward motion causing it to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.
b.
a ball hit with such a stroke.
adjective
21.
of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes.
Origin: 1690–1700; perhaps blend of smack2 and mash
1778, "break to pieces," earlier "kick downstairs" (c.1700), probably of imitative origin (cf. smack, mash). Smashed "drunk" is slang from 1962. Smash-up "collision" is recorded from 1856; smash-and-grab is first attested 1927. Smashing "pleasing, sensational" is from 1911.
smash
1839, "failure, financial collapse," from smash (v.). Tennis sense is from 1882. Meaning "great success" is from 1923 ("Variety" headline, Oct. 16, in ref. to Broadway productions of "The Fool" and "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly").
n. wine. (Streets. Because it is made from smashed grapes.) : I got a bottle of smash in my car.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
smashed definition
mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. : He was so smashed he couldn't stand up.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Example sentences
None can ignore a country now littered with smashed cars and army sandbags.
The first strokes smashed the shells into small bits and crushed the rice to a pulp.
The first strike smashed the starboard rail, killing or maiming nine marines.
All the cunning adjustments of a twentieth century city had been smashed by the earthquake.
Then he smashed his face in someone's birthday cake.
When the object collided with something, the clay would get smashed and he could measure how smashed it got.
And a flying mammal that ingests enough fruit alcohol may give an unfortunate double meaning to the word smashed.
Rioters smashed shop windows, flipped over cars, and threw rocks at riot police.
Some protesters smashed windows in an attempt to storm local-government offices.
Every single one of them had had their windows smashed.