Meanings
plural smash hits
- idiomaticSomething that is tremendously popular or successful.
The cookies, though soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party.
1 more example
All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.
1971, Library Journal, volume 96, page 1569
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Czech bomba
- bombasomething tremendously successful
Finnish jättimenestys, jymymenestys
- jättimenestyssomething tremendously successful
- jymymenestyssomething tremendously successful
German Bombenerfolg
- Bombenerfolgsomething tremendously successful
Hungarian bombasiker
- bombasikersomething tremendously successful
Cite this entry
smash hit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smash%20hit
“smash hit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smash%20hit. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smash hit,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smash%20hit.
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