smasher

plural smashers

1. countableuncountableSomething that, or someone who, smashes.

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   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.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 53

   1. countablehistoricaluncountablebusinessA person employed to break up waste rock.
2. countableslanguncountableAn attractive person (see also smashing).

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

   2019, “Magic of Meghan”, in Sweet Princess EP, performed by Dry Cleaning

3. countabledatedslanguncountableAnything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
4. UKcountableobsoleteslanguncountableOne who passes counterfeit money.

   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.

   1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90

5. UKcountableobsoleteslanguncountableThe counterfeit money itself.