smasher

English

Etymology

From smash +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smæʃɚ/

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Noun

smasher (countable and uncountable, plural smashers)

1. Something that, or someone who, smashes.
   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 53:

     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.

   1. (mining, historical) A person employed to break up waste rock.
2. (slang) An attractive person (see also smashing).
   • 2019, “Magic of Meghan”, in Sweet Princess EP, performed by Dry Cleaning:

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

3. (slang, dated) Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
4. (UK, slang, obsolete) One who passes counterfeit money.
   • 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90:

     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.

5. (UK, slang, obsolete) The counterfeit money itself.

Derived terms

• atom smasher
• baggage-smasher

Anagrams

• Harmses, marshes, mashers, shamers, shmears

French

Etymology

Calque of English to smash, from smash +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sma.ʃe/, /smat.ʃe/

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Verb

smasher

1. (tennis) to smash

Conjugation

Conjugation of smasher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	smasher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	smashant /sma.ʃɑ̃/ or /smat.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		smashé /sma.ʃe/ or /smat.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	smashe /smaʃ/ or /smatʃ/	smashes /smaʃ/ or /smatʃ/	smashe /smaʃ/ or /smatʃ/	smashons /sma.ʃɔ̃/ or /smat.ʃɔ̃/	smashez /sma.ʃe/ or /smat.ʃe/	smashent /smaʃ/ or /smatʃ/
	imperfect	smashais /sma.ʃɛ/ or /smat.ʃɛ/	smashais /sma.ʃɛ/ or /smat.ʃɛ/	smashait /sma.ʃɛ/ or /smat.ʃɛ/	smashions /sma.ʃjɔ̃/ or /smat.ʃjɔ̃/	smashiez /sma.ʃje/ or /smat.ʃje/	smashaient /sma.ʃɛ/ or /smat.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	smashai /sma.ʃe/ or /smat.ʃe/	smashas /sma.ʃa/ or /smat.ʃa/	smasha /sma.ʃa/ or /smat.ʃa/	smashâmes /sma.ʃam/ or /smat.ʃam/	smashâtes /sma.ʃat/ or /smat.ʃat/	smashèrent /sma.ʃɛʁ/ or /smat.ʃɛʁ/
	future	smasherai /smaʃ.ʁe/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁe/	smasheras /smaʃ.ʁa/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁa/	smashera /smaʃ.ʁa/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁa/	smasherons /smaʃ.ʁɔ̃/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/	smasherez /smaʃ.ʁe/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁe/	smasheront /smaʃ.ʁɔ̃/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	smasherais /smaʃ.ʁɛ/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	smasherais /smaʃ.ʁɛ/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	smasherait /smaʃ.ʁɛ/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	smasherions /sma.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	smasheriez /sma.ʃə.ʁje/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁje/	smasheraient /smaʃ.ʁɛ/ or /smat.ʃə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	smashe /smaʃ/ or /smatʃ/	smashes /smaʃ/ or /smatʃ/	smashe /smaʃ/ or /smatʃ/	smashions /sma.ʃjɔ̃/ or /smat.ʃjɔ̃/	smashiez /sma.ʃje/ or /smat.ʃje/	smashent /smaʃ/ or /smatʃ/
	imperfect2	smashasse /sma.ʃas/ or /smat.ʃas/	smashasses /sma.ʃas/ or /smat.ʃas/	smashât /sma.ʃa/ or /smat.ʃa/	smashassions /sma.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ or /smat.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	smashassiez /sma.ʃa.sje/ or /smat.ʃa.sje/	smashassent /sma.ʃas/ or /smat.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	smashe /smaʃ/ or /smatʃ/	—	smashons /sma.ʃɔ̃/ or /smat.ʃɔ̃/	smashez /sma.ʃe/ or /smat.ʃe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “smasher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012