smash-up

[ smash-uhp ]

/ ˈsmæʃˌʌp /

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noun

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

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Origin of smash-up

1855–60, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase smash up

Words nearby smash-up

smash-and-grab, smashed, smasher, smash hit, smashing, smash-up, smatch, smatter, smattering, SMATV, smaze

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The most recent issue contains detailed instructions for building car bombs, and the magazine frequently draws up hit-lists.
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What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
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Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
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Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.
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In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
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The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
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British Dictionary definitions for smash-up

smash-up

/ informal /

noun

a bad collision, esp of cars

verb smash up

(tr, adverb) to damage to the point of complete destructionthey smashed the place up

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