smash-up

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

Origin of smash-up

1
1855–60, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase smash up

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British Dictionary definitions for smash-up

smash-up

/ informal /


noun
  1. a bad collision, esp of cars

verbsmash up
  1. (tr, adverb) to damage to the point of complete destruction: they smashed the place up

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