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▪ I. smash, n.1|smæʃ|
[f. smash v.1]
1. a. dial. or colloq. A hard or heavy blow. (In earliest quots. fig.)
1725E. Wigan Let. 25 Sept. in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 156 They design to keep out look⁓outs every way and be ready to give them a Smash in their Towns. 1779T. Twining in R. Twining Recr. & Stud. (1882) 68 This last American smash of Sir George Collier's. 1780Ibid. 79, I want nothing but one good smash at the French fleet. 1816G. Muir Minstrelsy 24 (E.D.D.), Their shoon wi' tackets Were ca'd as fu' as cobler's smash Cou'd get them thacket. 1886Willock Rosetty Ends (1887) 21 Seizin' a hoe..he made a smash at the beast. 1898Daily News 24 Nov. 7/3 Sharkey came back with his right, delivering several smashes on Corbett's wind.
b. Lawn Tennis. A hard and fast overhand volley. Also in Badminton, Table Tennis, etc.
1882Daily Telegr. 18 July 2 Fourth game: Won by E. Renshaw, after some grand play, ‘smashes’ being frequent. 1894Outing XXIV. 297/2 One of Hovey's smashes brought an end to the situation. 1950Badminton (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 30/1 The smash is perhaps the most vulnerable stroke in the game. 1981G. MacBeth Kind of Treason xvi. 156 ‘Fourteen⁓fifteen,’ said Yoshida, serving again. He'd lost the point..by a wasted smash.
2.
†a. slang. Mashed turnips. Obs.
1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T. s.v., Leg of mutton and smash. 1799Sporting Mag. XIII. 360 W. S. Green,..for a wager of a leg of mutton and smash, drank three pints of Cogniac brandy in half an hour.
b. A shivered or broken-up condition. Chiefly in phrases to break, knock etc., or go, to smash. Also used fig. (cf. 4 a).
(a)1798C. Smith Yng. Philos. III. 124 She rayally thought her carridge would have been broke to smash. 1807–8Irving Salmag. (1824) 203 He determined to do the thing genteelly, to go to smash like a hero, and dashed into the limits in high style. 1830Galt Lawrie T. ii. iv. (1849) 54 It beats Shedry and Abendy to immortal smash. 1840Marryat Poor Jack v, [It] had..knocked his figure-head all to smash. 1874Huxley in Life (1900) I. xxviii. 413 The..arrangements all went to smash.
(b)1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. ii, The door panels were in a normal state of smash. 1883Stevenson Treasure Isl. v, You cannot imagine a house in such a state of smash.
3. a. A loud sound of breaking or crushing; a severe or extensive crushing, shivering, or breaking of anything, esp. accompanied by a crashing sound; a violent collision or impact.
1808Jamieson, Smash,..the sound of breaking, a crash. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle i, I could distinctly hear a heavy smash as the large and ponderous blocks..struck the doomed sailor. 1841[see railroad line s.v. railroad n. 3 a]. 1853Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. Prose Wks. 1890 I. 4 The last great railroad smash. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xiv, One of the dim floating lights disappeared with a smash from a stone. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 113 A smash of the leg. 1909Westm. Gaz. 27 Apr. 4/2 If the brakes fail to hold it is impossible to avoid a bad smash. 1957M. Spark Comforters viii. 196 If I hadn't had the smash I'd have got you last autumn.
b. Geol. (See quot.)
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 775 The Lower Chalk formation..contains many ruptures and dislocations, ‘smashes’ as they are now commonly called.
4. a. Commercial failure; stoppage through insolvency; bankruptcy. (Cf. crash n.1 2 b.)
1839Lockhart Ballantyne-humbug 114 He was careful enough to give his wife {pstlg}250 on the very morning of the smash! 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. x, A commercial smash kills a hundred men's houses for them. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xxxix. 341 There is no saying what day a smash may come.
b. A crushing defeat or overthrow.
1888Spectator 30 June 878 A smash of Sir E. Watkin by an instinctive vote of the House. 1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign v, It was a final smash to the enemy in the north.
c. A break-up of some kind; a revolution.
1890Spectator 2 Aug., The ‘smash’ at Buenos Ayres, which has been expected for the last six weeks,..took place last Saturday.
5. a. An American beverage made of spirit, ice, water, sugar, and flavoured with mint.
1850[see brandy-smash s.v. brandy n. 2]. 1859F. Fowler Southern Lights 52 A Smash, ice, brandy, and water. 1861Times 10 July, Thirsty souls, who have hastened on board..for a julep, a smash, or a cocktail. 1871[see corpse reviver s.v. corpse n. 6]. 1909[see brandy-smash s.v. brandy n. 2]. 1958A. L. Simon Dict. Wines, Spirits & Liqueurs 147/2 Smashes, mixed iced drinks always with a spirit foundation and some mint flavouring. 1973Wodehouse Bachelors Anonymous xiii. 170 What more likely than that he should have fetched up in Hollywood, made a packet, perished of a surfeit of brandy smashes, and left that packet to that nephew.
b. An alcoholic drink, esp. wine. N. Amer. slang.
1959Maclean's Mag. 15 Aug. 28/2 So I had a couple of smashes and marched in. 1966Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Mar. 35/8 Every time you wanted a smash the check girl would hand the coat to you over the counter, so you could get your mickey without actually taking the coat out. 1975Amer. Speech 1972 XLVII. 153 Let's get in the wind and belt some smash.
6. A great success; a film, person, play, song, etc., which enjoys popular success; a hit (hit n. 4). Also attrib., esp. in smash hit.
1923Variety 11 Oct. 16 (heading) ‘Rosie O'Reilly’ and ‘The Fool’, Loop's Two Smash Hits. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Oct. 841/1 An entirely strange girl; whom anyone would have admitted to be a ‘smash’. 1931Daily Express 21 Sept. 9/3 The magnates who had contracted to buy the picture indulged in fits of doubt concerning its prospects as a box-office ‘smash’. 1935Amer. Speech X. 193/2 Terminology from other fields aids the fashion editor... The sports writer is also responsible for the smash hit dinner dress. 1935Wodehouse Blandings Castle xii. 305 Our whole programme is built around it. We are relying on it to be our big smash. 1948W. S. Maugham Colonel's Lady in Quartet 201 The English publisher said to him: ‘We've not had a success like this with a book of verse for twenty years.’.. The American publisher said to him: ‘It's swell. It'll be a smash hit in America.’ 1949R. Chandler Let. 23 Apr. (1981) 174 You can't make me into a smash best seller. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) xix. 158 Holiday on Broadway was a sellout, and the first performance made us think we had a smash. 1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 110 It was a smash commercial success. 1969R. Lowell Notebk. 1967–68 71 Eliot dead, you [sc. Ezra Pound] saying, ‘And who is left to understand my jokes? My old Brother in the acts..and besides, he was a smash of a poet.’ 1973Black World Apr. 18/2 All smash Broadway musical hits. 1975D. Francis High Stakes 232 The oddly mixed party proved a smash-hit success. 1978Times 1 Nov. 13/1 [His] aim..has been to expand a truthful little ethnic comedy into a popular smash.
Add:7. A party, esp. one that is noisy or unrestrained. Cf. bash n. 2 (ii) and thrash n.1 3. N. Amer. slang.
1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 171 [Kansas Univ. slang] A particularly rough and noisy party:..smash. 1968Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 3/7 The Liberals are still planning a big party, but now they are thinking in more modest terms... There are two difficulties in the sort of all-out smash originally contemplated. 1977New Yorker 26 Sept. 38/3 Every spring the Thrales gave a party... They called this decorous event ‘our smash’.
▪ II. smash, n.2 slang.
[Of doubtful origin: not clearly connected with prec.]
1. a. Counterfeit coin. Also in comb. smash-feeder (see quot. 1860).
1795Potter Dict. Cant, Smash,..bad coin. 1839Slang Dict. 34 Smashfeeder, a silver spoon. 1860Ibid. 219 Smash⁓feeder, a Britannia metal spoon,—the best imitation shillings are made from this metal.
b. Loose change.
1821D. Haggart Life 13 M'Guire got L.7 of smash; I got a L.10 banknote. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie (1972) ii. 22 Soon I was buying his drinks and meals, and he was hitting me for ‘smash’ (change) at regular intervals. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned iii. 21 Giving her his smash on pay-night so's she can blow it. 1965Australasian Post 4 Mar. 47 Russell goes on to point out that all loose change is sometimes known as ‘smash’.
2. (See sling v.1 3 f.)
▪ III. smash, v.1|smæʃ|
[Probably imitative: cf. Norw. dial. smaska to crush, slaa i smask to knock to smash (Ross).]
I. trans.
†1. slang. (See quot.) Obs.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Smash, to kick down Stairs.
2. a. To break (anything) in pieces violently; to dash to pieces; to crush, shatter, or shiver.
1778Foote Tailors ii. iii, While others shall assault each house of call, Smash all their slates, and plunder every box. 1786in R. Twining Recr. & Stud. (1882) 139 To have his legs and arms smashed. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxiii, The first person he met was Frank Kennedy, all smashed and gory. 1820Shelley Vis. Sea 145 Some hideous engine whose brazen teeth smash The thin winds and soft waves into thunder. 1851G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 530 The bottle is smashed, smashed to atoms! 1885W. T. Hornaday 2 Yrs. Jungle xviii. 198 Nearly every bamboo..had been pulled down and smashed to splinters.
b. In imprecations, with or without object expressed.
1819W. Midford in Coll. Songs 47 Smash! Jemmy, let us buss, we'll off, And see Newcassel Races. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Smash, a kind of oath among the pitmen near Newcastle. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle viii, Smash my eyes, man, but them barrels be full of pimento. 1894Clegg David's Loom 181 Smash me! I won't be guilty of bragging.
c. Bookbinding. To flatten or compress (the sheets of a book) before binding.
1875[implied in smashing machine].
3. a. To dash or fling (anything) with noise and violence; to batter; to cause to strike hard.
c1800The Earl o' Bran' xxviii. in Child Ball. IV. 444/2 An he smashed them doun a' bane by bane. 1822Ainslie Land of Burns 200, I reft at the rock.., an wou'd hae geen a warl' to been able to lift it, an smash't it in amang them. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. viii. 55 If you give me one word out of your head, I'll smash your face in. 1864Bp. Wilberforce in Life (1882) III. v. 137 My mare..smashed my head on the gravel. 1872Spurgeon Treas. David lviii. 6 It is asked that their grinders may be smashed in, broken off, or dashed out.
b. Lawn Tennis. To strike (the ball) violently and swiftly in an overhand volley. Also absol. and in Badminton, Squash Rackets, etc.
1882Daily Telegr. 18 July 2 W. ‘smashing’ a ball into the net, left the game and sett in his brother's favour by six games to two. 1890St. Nicholas Sept. 921 He told them..when to ‘smash’ a ball. 1965Badminton (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) (ed. 2) 31/1 The man should take the shuttle as early as possible, playing drives when the shuttle is too low to smash. 1968Squash Rackets (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 43/1 You cannot smash a good high lob as you can at lawn tennis. Ibid. 44/2 A lob that was too high above the player's head has been smashed on to the tin.
4. a. To defeat utterly; to crush completely; to overcome, overwhelm, or destroy.
1813Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary (1862) II. 443 It is difficult to smash above one hundred and eighty thousand men resting on fortified bulwarks. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 226, I am told..that the police were regularly smashed. 1865Examiner 18 Mar. 162 Suddenly to set aside the spirit and substance thereof for the purposes..of ‘smashing’ a particular bill is an act of suicidal wrong. 1884Western Daily Press 28 May 8/5 To join in a British expedition to ‘smash’ the Mahdi.
b. To render insolvent or bankrupt.
1857Borrow Rom. Rye xli, My father did his best to smash the Bank of England by passing forged notes, and I did my best to assist him. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. ix, Folks rich once,—smashed up.
II. intr.
5. To move rapidly with shattering effect; to dash or smite violently; to crash.
1835J. Monteath Dunblane Trad. (1887) 122 Headlong he over hillocks rush'd, And wet through bogs and mosses smash'd. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xviii, You may smash away as hard as you can. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxv. 314 Picking up the silver dollar, he sent it smashing through the window-pane out into the darkness. 1898Sir W. Crookes Addr. Brit. Assoc. 25 The quick moving molecules, smashing on to the surface, have their energy reduced.
6. colloq. To fail financially; to be ruined; to become insolvent or bankrupt. Also with up.
1839Hood My Son & Heir xix, A Glazier?—what if he should smash! 1862Sala Seven Sons III. vii. 142 A firm that had smashed for so tremendous an amount. 1876Besant & Rice Golden Butterfly (1877) 211 The Republic..cannot hope to pay its dividends—Must smash up, in short.
7. To break or fly in pieces, esp. as the result of a blow or impact.
1904W. W. Jacobs Dialstone Lane ii. 27 The pipe fell from the listener's fingers and smashed unheeded on the floor.
III. 8. a. Used adverbially, as in to go (also run) smash.
1818[see go v. B. 10]. 1823Spirit Public Jrnls. (1824) 204 The last went smash through the shop window into the street. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy vi, Here the hens flew against the dresser, and smash went the plates and dishes. 1849T. T. Johnson Sights Gold Region xxii. 211 The afternoon of our ‘first day out’ was signalized by running smash into a big sycamore tree. 1888Veitch Dean's Dau. I. i. 25, I saw the great egg go smash against her head.
b. to play smash: to come to grief; to wreak havoc with. dial. and U.S. colloq.
1841Spirit of Times 2 Jan. 523/2 Bill Spence got drunk and played smash with all the arrangements. 1842D. Vedder Poems 84 Slates an' tiles, frae aff the houses, On the causey crown played smash. 1887Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) 17 Jan. 1/7 (caption) Plays Smash With a Passenger Train on the Fitchburg Railroad. 1903W. N. Harben Abner Daniel ii. 11 Yore pa's as bull⁓headed as a young steer, an' he's already played smash anyway. 1912Dialect Notes III. viii. 585 Play smash,..a euphemism for play hell or play the devil. 1915Ibid. IV. iii. 187 Play smash,..to make a great blunder; do a thing wholly wrong.
▪ IV. smash, v.2 Cant.
[Cf. smash n.2]
1. trans. To pass (counterfeit money).
1801Sporting Mag. XIX. 88/1 He had never seen any [forged notes] that were better done; he had smashed several. 1811in Lexicon-Balatronicum. 1851Househ. Words 25 Jan. 423, I [a bad shilling] remained to be ‘smashed’ (passed) by my master. 1898A. M. Binstead Pink 'Un & Pelican x. 229 The small tradesman, afraid to smash his notes at a bureau, had them still intact when the police called upon him. 1905― Mop Fair ii. 28 The imaginary ‘bailiff’ who spoke about the handcuffs is well known in the neighbourhood..while the counterfeit ‘tipstaff’ who smashed the cheque is a dog-fighting publican.
2. (See quot.)
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., To smash a guinea, note, or other money, is, in a common sense, to procure, or give, change for it. |