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ˈsmash-up
Also (U.S.) smashup.
[f. smash n.1 or v.1]
a. A complete smash. Also fig.
1858Holland Titcomb's Lett. viii. 74 Follow it, and see how long it will be before you come to a stump and a smash-up. 1890S. W. Baker Wild Beasts I. 16 A hollow bullet..is intended..to secure an expansion and smash-up of the lead upon impact with the animal. 1892Cath. News 27 Feb. 5/5 May this smash-up of his facts remain as a warning to him. 1940W. Empson Gathering Storm 67 Politicians, etc., living now, who made a smash-up of international affairs. 1974[see military police s.v. military a. 3 b]. 1978H. Wouk War & Remembrance xxxix. 399 Historians tend to miss the awful simultaneity of the fourfold smashup.
b. spec. A collision, esp. of road or rail vehicles; a crash. Chiefly U.S.
1856M. J. Holmes 'Lena Rivers 36 The old lady, sure of a smash-up this time, had attempted to rise. 1875H. W. Shaw Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax 13 Got the orfull smash up on the rale rode. 1923M. Watts Luther Nichols 354 There had been..a smash up; a delivery-wagon..had run head-on into that there stone. 1931Kansas City Times 3 Oct. e/6 What could run more typically true to form than a smashup when that bee got up a motorist's pants leg a short time ago? 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xii. 236 They all drive so fast... If it weren't for you, I sometimes think they'd be having their smashups right in my living room. |