Meanings
present singular third person smashes it · participle present smashing it · participle past smashed it · past smashed it
- informalto perform excellently; to enjoy great success
1 more example
20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in In Edinburgh, people keep joking that 2018 isn’t a great year to be a straight white man at the fringe and, to an extent, they are correct. Young female comics are grappling with big questions in their shows, in inventive, transgressive, and brilliantly funny ways. Really, in terms of who is smashing it jokes-wise, there’s no contest.
Synonyms: knock it out of the park
Synonyms & antonyms
verbto perform excellently; to enjoy great success
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smash it. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smash%20it
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