<noun.event> the sudden knock floored him he took a bash right in his face he got a bang on the head
a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles)
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a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
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the act of colliding with something
<noun.act> his crash through the window the fullback's smash into the defensive line
a conspicuous success
<noun.act> that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career that new Broadway show is a real smasher the party went with a bang [ verb ]
Smash \Smash\ (sm[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Smashed} (sm[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Smashing}.] [Cf. Sw. smisk a blow, stroke, smiska to strike, dial. Sw. smaske to kiss with a noise, and E. smack a loud kiss, a slap.] 1. To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces. --Burke.
2. (Lawn Tennis) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Smash \Smash\, v. i. To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.
Smash \Smash\, n. 1. A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
2. Hence, bankruptcy. [Colloq.]
"We smash it down with a fork and then measure how much it sprang up," says tester Marsha McNeil.
And now that he's a smash performer and songwriter at 27, he wants to quit doing what tons of gifted youngsters all over the world would shoot Grandma for - just one crack at what he's complaining about," said Sinatra, who will be 75 on Dec. 12.
Even as the summer's blockbusters smash box-office records, a majority in a Media General-Associated Press poll gave unfavorable reviews to most new films.
In Peoria, Ill,. the mayor is keeping his tonsils tuned in the event of another trip to Tokyo, where his renditions of Sinatra classics have been a smash.
In some cases, the method justified by Mr Popov to 'smash state property at all costs' had made things worse. 'A simple man assesses reforms through his pay packet and the situation in the shops.
Federal drug agents say the State Department for 18 years stood in the way of efforts to smash drug smuggling by Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, according to a story by the Scripps-Howard News Service.
The death of the Bishop of Eldoret in a motor smash may not have been accidental. Then to the Anglican communion in America, the Episcopal Church in the US, or ECUSA.
President Reagan had asked Congress to approve $363 million for the project, which would use a 53-mile-round particle accelerator to smash subatomic particles into each other.
The guerrillas do not recognize the agreement and have vowed to keep fighting until they smash the Kabul government.
And she says her naive character in the smash film with Patrick Swayze was really an acting reach for her.
The new Lincoln Continental is a smash hit although its six-cylinder engine competes against Cadillac's more powerful V-8s.
He told of holding a flashlight while David Sconce pulled gold teeth from the mouths of a dozen corpses, and said he once saw him smash a corpse's jaw with a crowbar to get at gold teeth.
Companies keep asking the government to smash the unions.
Los Angeles-based Carolco, one of the nation's largest independent film production companies, produced this summer's smash hit, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day."
Ingmar Bergman's staging of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" is a smash with audiences and critics more than three decades after the play premiered on the same Stockholm stage.
The battery-powered vehicles have been a smash in Japan since debuting there in late 1987.
Many of his allies helped in the fight to smash Communist rule last winter.
"When you smash it with your teeth, there is a chemical reaction and that makes the heat," said Keller. "It gets real hot." Most of their crop is bought by companies that grind up the roots and bottle them as traditional horseradish sauce.
Firefighters had to smash a century-old stained glass window to ventilate the building, and the floor under the altar collapsed.
It became the Broadway smash "On The Town." Soon to come were his chamber opera "Trouble In Tahiti"; the movie score for "On the Waterfront," and Broadway's "Wonderful Town," for which Bernstein won his only Tony.
It proposed to smash the violent hard core of the opposition while introducing economic reforms to restore hope to those who had joined it out of despair.
So why is Ore-Ida Foods, a unit of the multinational H.J. Heinz Co., such a smash hit with Japanese consumers today?
They used a stolen garbage truck to smash through a fence, then drove off with the loot in stolen vans, police said.
Originally, the Space Command had predicted the satellite would smash into the atmosphere at 6:12 a.m. EST over the Pacific Ocean, and west of the Galapagos Islands.
The original "Annie" was a Broadway smash, opening in April 1977 and running for 2,377 performances.
The Energy Department has chosen a site around Waxahachie, Texas, for the 53-mile underground tunnel in which beams of protons would smash into each other with 20 times the energy of today's most powerful atomic accelerators.
"I think it flows with all of the investments being made out of Japan by the Japanese in real estate and other businesses," says producer Barry Weissler, whose smash revival of "Gypsy," starring Tyne Daly, has money from Tokyo Broadcasting.
But often, the eggs are carried to a picnic spot in a park where children and adults try to sneak up and smash the eggs on each others' heads.
"He told us the accelerator stuck, causing him to lose control and smash through the wall and into the building," Hughie said.
We knew the Iraqis shoot first at the tires, then come and smash the cars and take occupants out.