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smash
English
Etymology
From a blend of smack +? mash. Compare Swedish smask (“a light explosion, crack, report”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /smæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
smash (plural smashes)
- The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
- (Britain, colloquial) A traffic collision.
- (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc); a hit.
- 2019, Ginaluca Russo, "Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet", Teen Vogue, 1 May 2019:
- All together, this look is a smash in our books.
- 2019, Ginaluca Russo, "Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet", Teen Vogue, 1 May 2019:
- (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
- (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
- A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.
Synonyms
- (sound of a violent impact): crash
- (colloquial: traffic accident): crash
- (colloquial: something very successful): smash hit
Descendants
- ? Czech: sme?
- ? Serbo-Croatian: sme?
Translations
Verb
smash (third-person singular simple present smashes, present participle smashing, simple past and past participle smashed)
- To break (something brittle) violently.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter X
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter X
- (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
- To hit extremely hard.
- (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
- (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
- I really smashed that English exam.
- (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
- 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live:
- Farmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch only smashes with farmers?
- 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live:
Synonyms
- (break violently): dash, shatter
- (be destroyed by being smashed): shatter
- (hit extremely hard): pound, thump, wallop; see also Thesaurus:hit
- (ruin completely and suddenly): dash
- (defeat overwhelmingly): slaughter, trounce
- (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Descendants
- ? Catalan: esmaixar
Translations
Related terms
Anagrams
- HMSAS, SAHMs, Sahms, Shams, shams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English smash.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sma?/
Noun
smash m (plural smashs)
- (tennis) smash
Related terms
- smasher
Further reading
- “smash” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English smash.
Noun
smash m (invariable)
- smash (tennis shot)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English smash.
Noun
smash m (plural smashes)
- (tennis) smash (overhead shot hit sharply downward)
smash From the web:
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jab
English
Etymology
Originally a Scottish (unclear if Scots or Scottish English) form of English job (“peck, poke, thrust”), from Middle English jobben.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?æb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Noun
jab (plural jabs)
- A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
- 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,
- He tore in for the ball, make a running jab for it and held it.
- 1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Chapter 9,
- (boxing) A short straight punch.
- (Britain) A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)
- Our dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.
- (Britain, Australia) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
- (US, figuratively) A mild verbal insult.
Derived terms
- jabby
Translations
Verb
jab (third-person singular simple present jabs, present participle jabbing, simple past and past participle jabbed)
- To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
- To deliver a quick punch.
- (slang, Britain) To give someone an injection
Translations
References
Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “jab”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Noun
jab m (genitive singular jab, nominative plural jabanna)
- job, piece of work
- post, employment
Declension
Derived terms
- jabaire m (“(cattle-)jobber”)
References
- "jab" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English jab.
Noun
jab m (invariable)
- jab (boxing punch)
Spanish
Noun
jab m (plural jabs)
- (boxing) jab
jab From the web:
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- what jabra headset do i have
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- what jabber means
- what jabroni means
- what jabba says to han
- what jabs do puppies need
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