smasheroo

plural smasheroos

1. slangA blockbuster; a movie, play, song, or other form of commercial entertainment that is a smash hit.

   The good news is that she made her feature-film debut in one of the smasheroos of the season, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

   1987, Stereo Review - Volume 52, page 121

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   The third of Neil Simon's Broadway comedy smasheroos to be filmed by Paramount, this is the story of two men, one divorced and one about to be, who become apartment mates ...

   1962, Paramount Pictures, inc, Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities and Profit and Loss Accounts, page 17

   Taking notes at one of the monthly meetings, when the league chose the shows that would tour on its subscription series in seventeen cities, she admired Mike's loud and brash arguments on behalf of his latest "smasheroo."

   1981, Marianne Langner Zeitlin, Mira's passage, page 20

   It was his first number one, his first smasheroo, his first block buster, but definitely not his first 45 revolutions per minute.

   2005, Mike Robertson, Parts of a Past, page 309

2. broadlyslangA big success

   And is my little do tomorrow gonna be a smasheroo, or a smasheroo?

   1963, David Westheimer, J.P. Miller's Days of Wine and Roses, page 111

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   A couple of years ago when grain speculators wanted to unload a bumper crop of wheat, ole Dick Nixon helped arrange a smasheroo of a wheat sale to the Russians.

   1975, News and Views - Ohio AFL-CIO.- Volumes 24-28

   As early as the nineteenth century, there were people who insisted that locusts were healthier than pork, but they never became a gastronomic smasheroo in Europe.

   2005, The Low Countries

3. slangA violent collision.

   Granted it gets a bit slippery when wet, and now and then will give the old smasheroo to a kneecap — but it endures, gentlemen, it endures.

   1971, The New Yorker - Volume 47, Part 6, page 45

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   Afterwards he said his only thought was to get the plane close to the water in case anything happened. It did. "PLOOSHHHHHhhhh-hh-hh-h. What a smasheroo in the drink!

   1955, American Modeler

   You know, these smasheroos really upset my mother. We always seem to get near one of the tiresome things right at the beginning of every trip, and that more or less ruins the whole thing for her.

   1968, Stephen McNamee, Seven for the Road, page 58

comparative more smasheroo · superlative most smasheroo

1. slangExtremetly good; fantastic; smashing.

   What a smasheroo pair of gams!

   2012, Ron Goulart, Big Bang

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   Fendi's smasheroo short, short fur belted over shorts, worn with ribby stockings, ribbier over-the-knee socks, Oxford ties .

   1971, Vogue - Volume 158

   Managing Editor Steinbacher, wearing his other hat. proclaimed the NJF convention "Socko. boffo, smasheroo."

   1973, Dixon Gayer, The Dixon Line - Volumes 11-12

   Poor Paul will be delighted, after all three smasheroo ladies.

   1989, Dorothy Fletcher, Horizons, page 284

2. slangInebriated; smashed.

   I don't get smasheroo. I wasn't smasheroo that night. I had a drink, yes, maybe I had two drinks, but not smasheroo.

   2015, Norma Fox Mazer, When We First Met

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   "What?" says Leon, spinning around, toasting Freed and Claire with his finally emptied flute of champagne. “I'm smasheroo,” he informs them, unconvincingly.

   1999, News from the Republic of Letters - Issues 6-9