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Etymology
Deverbal from smash up.
Noun
smashup (plural smashups)
- (informal) An abrupt, damaging breakdown or failure.
- (informal) A violent collision involving one or more vehicles.
- Synonym: crash
- An instance or the result of smashing; that which has been smashed into pieces.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 206:I discovered that a lot of imported drainage-pipes for the settlement had been tumbled in there. There wasn’t one that was not broken. It was a wanton smash-up.
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