smasher
noun/smæʃɚ/
Etymology From smash + -er.
1
Something that, or someone who, smashes.
- 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:
2
Business, Mining Historical A person employed to break up waste rock.
3
Slang An 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 role2019, “Magic of Meghan”, in Sweet Princess EP, performed by Dry Cleaning:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- atom smasher, baggage-smasher