smash-mouth

comparative more smash-mouth · superlative most smash-mouth · alternative smashmouth

1. Violent; aggressive; vigorous.

   For the record, I was not at all angry. I did want to talk about what conservatives stand for beyond the smashmouth politics that sometimes dominates campaigns.

   2017, Jeff Flake, Conscience of a Conservative, page 15

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   Wacker says his team, the Horned Frogs, plays "smash-mouth football." He means that his lads are (as less poetic coaches are wont to say) "physical," meaning vigorous.

   1984, Newsweek

   Penn State quickly scored the first touchdown against Oklahoma, showing roughly what Switzer meant when he called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you."

   1986, TIME