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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“I was cruising through YouTube and saw some kids getting into the atom smasher and exploring it,” he said.
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
Eventually, the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, blasted some of those bosons into fleeting existence, cementing Higgs’s explanation of how fundamental particles get mass.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 10, 2024
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
Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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