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▪ I. smasher1|ˈsmæʃə(r)|
[f. smash v.1]
1. slang.
a. Anything uncommon, extraordinary, or unusual, esp. unusually large or excellent.
1794Gentl. Mag. LXIV. i. 216/1 Smasher..signifies any thing larger than common. a1800in Pegge Suppl. Grose. 1853Moodie Life Clearings 106 If you make it twelve and a half cents, you'll have a smasher [= a full house]. 1894Daily News 11 Sept. 5/1 Lord Rosebery's colt, who, if not the ‘smasher’ which his precipitate admirers declared him to be.., is above the average of high-class three-year-olds.
b. A very pretty or attractive woman; an attractive man.
1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 173 To a Scotsman an attactive girl was ‘a wee smasher’. 1949J. R. Cole It was so Late 61 ‘Yes. No kidding,’ Don said. ‘But she was easier to look at than anything around here. She was a smasher—straight she was!’ 1957A. Wilson Bit off Map & Other Stories 74 When the jeunes filles met Rodney, Jackie..put her head on one side and said, ‘I say, isn't he a smasher!’ 1963Security Gazette V. i. 13/2 The applicant for a shorthand typist's job—she was a smasher. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xviii. 458 In a long black wig, tan body paint and my few scraps of metal I look a smasher.
2. colloq.
a. A severe or crushing reply, article, review, etc.
1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 189 His reply..was a complete smasher. 1849Thackeray Pendennis xxxi, He's a tremendous hand at a smasher. 1864Reader No. 100. 674/1 The Edinburgh Review had ‘come down a smasher on Robert Browning’.
b. A bad or damaging fall; a heavy blow.
1829P. Egan Boxiana 2nd Ser. II. 706 Tom, by the effect of this smasher, lost his equilibrium. 1875Buckland Log-Book 4 The horses will come a terrific smasher. 1897Daily News 1 June 8/2 Before I could consider,..I had fetched him the smasher.
3. An appliance or machine which smashes or crushes; spec. a bookbinder's compressing-machine; a form of embossing-press.
1822W. James Naval Hist. (1826) I. 47 Its destructive effects..induced its ingenious inventor to give it the name of smasher. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 44 The folded sheets are sometimes condensed in another American machine called ‘The Smasher’. 1882J. B. Nicholson Art Bookbinding 44 A powerful embossing press, technically called a smasher.
4. One who smashes.
1884Pall Mall G. 4 July 1/2 Every day the smashing is postponed..the more likely will it be that the Mahdi will be the smasher and we the smashed. 1921[see double-faulter s.v. double a. C. 3]. 1928B. Nuthall Learning Lawn Tennis vii. 114, I am not an expert smasher myself.
5. attrib. in smasher hat, a slouched hat. Also ellipt.
1891E. Glanville Fossicker xviii. 156 The Dutchmen stared at him from under the brims of their felt ‘smashers’. 1892J. R. Couper Mixed Humanity i. 4 A wide-awake, called in South Africa a ‘smasher’. 1894C. H. W. Donaldson With Wilson in Matabeleland ix. 189 Brown cord jackets and ‘smasher’ hats, bandoliers and rifles. 1899G. H. Russell Under the Sjambok x. 107 The men..are content to put a piece of crape round the arm and smasher hat.
▪ II. smasher2 slang.|ˈsmæʃə(r)|
[f. smash n.2 or v.2]
1. One who passes or utters counterfeit coin or forged notes.
1795Potter Dict. Cant, Smasher, a passer of counterfeit coin. 1796Colquhoun Police Metropolis 107 The Dealer..for the most part disposes of it to the utterers, vulgarly called Smashers. 1836Lincoln Herald 20 Dec. 4/2 Several individuals have been imposed upon by the smashers. 1857Borrow Romany Rye xli, When I said that my father was a smasher, I meant one who passes forged notes. 1895Westm. Gaz. 18 Sept. 3/1 Most frequently the single-handed ‘smasher’ contents himself in passing one coin in an evening.
fig.1872Punch 2 Mar. 97/1 Some smashers have lately been trying to pass the base word ‘cablegram’.
2. A counterfeit coin. rare—1.
1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. (1864) II. 488/2 Every bit of it, every coin,..was bad—all smashers.
3. A receiver of stolen property. rare.
1929C. Humphreys Gt. Pearl Robbery i. 60 The goods might be disposed of to a ‘smasher’, that is, a receiver of stolen property. |