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Smasher

noun

A person who smashes something.

A very attractive or seductive looking woman. Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, stunner, sweetheart.

A conspicuous success. Synonyms: bang, hit, smash, strike. "That new Broadway show is a real smasher" , "The party went with a bang"

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"Smasher" Quotes from Famous Books

... page 110, note, Huxley remarks: "Surely it is a little singular that the 'anatomist,' who finds it 'difficult' to 'determine the difference' between Homo and Pithecus, should yet range them, on anatomical grounds, in distinct sub-classes.") What a complete and awful smasher (and done like a "buttered angel") it is for Owen! What a humbug he is to have left out the sentence in the lecture before the orthodox Cambridge dons! I like Lubbock's paper very much: how well he writes. (119/3. ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... thought Roch, what can he want with that old trunk? It was an old box, painted black, and thickly studded with nails. It was a shaky looking affair, and did not look as if it would stand much of a chance with a modern "baggage smasher." It had some old tags pasted on it, which showed where it had been. One which was partly scraped off, read Montgomery, another Galveston, and ...

— The Expressman and the Detective • Allan Pinkerton

... frustrated by the opportune appearance of Mr. Blades and Mr. Cheke, the gentleman- commoner of Corpus, who, in their turn, were closely followed by Mr. Smalls and Mr. Flexible Shanks; and Mr. Blades exclaiming, "There's a smasher for your ivories, my fine fellow!" followed up his remark with a practical application of his fist to the part referred to; whereupon the Bargee fell back with a howl, and gave vent to several curse-ory ...

— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede

Words linked to "Smasher" : beauty, woman, ravisher, adult female, blockbuster, success, individual, lulu, hit, mortal, somebody, megahit, soul, person, smash hit, someone, sleeper