smash

== English == === Etymology === Uncertain, probably of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Swedish smask (“to smack with the lips”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /smæʃ/ Rhymes: -æʃ === Noun === smash (countable and uncountable, plural smashes) The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together. Synonym: crash (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A traffic collision. Synonym: crash (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc). Synonyms: hit, smash hit (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy. (colloquial, archaic) A disaster; a bad situation. A mashed foodstuff. A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink. (aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure. (uncountable, archaic) Destruction. ==== Descendants ==== → Czech: smeč → Serbo-Croatian: smeč → Turkish: smaç ==== Translations ==== === Verb === smash (third-person singular simple present smashes, present participle smashing, simple past and past participle smashed) (transitive) To break (something brittle) violently. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed. (transitive) To hit extremely hard. (transitive, figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over. (transitive, US) To deform through continuous pressure. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with. 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live: Farmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch only smashes with farmers? (intransitive, slang, archaic) Synonym of go to smash (“to go to ruin; to fail disastrously”). (UK, Ireland, slang, obsolete) To pass counterfeit money. ==== Synonyms ==== (break violently): dash, shatter (be destroyed by being smashed): shatter (hit extremely hard): pound, thump, wallop; see also Thesaurus:hit (ruin completely and suddenly): dash (defeat overwhelmingly): slaughter, trounce (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: esmaixar ==== Translations ==== === Derived terms === === Anagrams === HMSAS, SAHMs, Sahms, Shams, shams == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English smash. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /smaʃ/ === Noun === smash m (plural smashs) (tennis) smash ==== Related terms ==== smasher === Further reading === “smash”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English smash. === Noun === smash m (invariable) smash (tennis shot) == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English smash. === Noun === smash m (plural smashes) (tennis) smash (overhead shot hit sharply downward) == Romanian == === Noun === smash n (plural smash-uri) alternative form of smeș ==== Declension ====