Smasher

Quick meaning: Smasher is a noun meaning Something that, or someone who, smashes.

Meaning

Something that, or someone who, smashes.

More Meanings

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) One who passes counterfeit money.
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) The counterfeit money itself.
3. (slang) An attractive person (see also smashing).
4. (slang, dated) Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.

Example Sentences

You got engaged on the day that I moved out. It's OK / She's a smasher, perfectly suited to the role

The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.

With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.

Word Forms

• smashers

Synonyms for smasher

Depending on context, synonyms include peach, sweetheart, beauty, dish, knockout, stunner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include knockout, mantrap, stunner, looker, beauty, lulu.

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