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The verb for when you'd rather break something than put it down gently.
means To break something violently and loudly into pieces, or to hit, crash into, or succeed wildly at something with forceful impact.
from A 18th-century coinage, almost certainly echoic — a word built to sound like the thing it describes, that crunching, shattering noise. Language historians link it to a cluster of similar-sounding smack-crack-crash words that all seem to imitate violent impact rather than descend from any single tidy root. The meaning spread fast: from breaking dishes to smashing records to being a 'smash hit' — the word kept its violence but learned to apply it to success, too.
- origin
- echoic word, sounds like what it means
- dating slang
- means attractive enough to sleep with
- video games
- smash bros turned beating friends into a genre
- box office
- a smash hit means money, not violence