smash-up

[smash-uhp]

noun

1. a complete smash, especially a wreck of one or more vehicles.

smash-up

noun

1. a bad collision, esp of cars

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to damage to the point of complete destruction

   they smashed the place up

Word History and Origins

Origin of smash-up¹

1855–60, noun use of verb phrase smash up