smasher
Americannoun
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a person or thing that smashes.
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a person or thing that is excellent, impressive, extraordinary, or the like.
That new off-Broadway show is a real smasher.
noun
Etymology
Origin of smasher
Example Sentences
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The one-time industrial powerhouse shut the atom smasher by the late 1950s; it sold the surrounding 10 acres in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
After I slapped my beef patty onto the grill, Paquette handed me a steel burger smasher.
From Slate • Aug. 11, 2025
And it needed the world’s biggest atom smasher CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to produce the extreme surge of energies simulating those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024
In such a universe, a black hole appearing inside an atom smasher becomes much more feasible, potentially revealing insights into the very nature of gravity.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2023
If that were so, the reign of the cyclotron as sciences most powerful and effective atom smasher might be a brief one.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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