smasher

[smash-er]

noun

1. a person or thing that smashes.

2. a person or thing that is excellent, impressive, extraordinary, or the like.

   That new off-Broadway show is a real smasher.

smasher

/ ˈsmæʃə /

noun

1. informal,  a person or thing that is very attractive or outstanding

Word History and Origins

Origin of smasher¹

First recorded in 1785–95; smash + -er ¹

Example Sentences

He doesn’t like seeing the fallen atom smasher, he said.

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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.

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It is also the United States’s premier builder of large scientific facilities such as atom smashers and x-ray synchrotrons.

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“Ramapo College swimmer in NJ goes from less than mediocre male swimmer to a record smasher competing against the women,” Gaines said on X. “Hm, where have we seen this before?”

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DOE’s x-ray and neutron sources and atom smashers serve thousands of experiments probing everything from the origins of matter to the structures of materials and proteins.

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