smash-mouth
See also: smashmouth
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editOriginating in American football.
Adjective
editsmash-mouth (comparative more smash-mouth, superlative most smash-mouth)
- Violent; aggressive; vigorous.
- 1984, Newsweek:
- Wacker says his team, the Horned Frogs, plays "smash-mouth football." He means that his lads are (as less poetic coaches are wont to say) "physical," meaning vigorous.
- 1986, TIME:
- Penn State quickly scored the first touchdown against Oklahoma, showing roughly what Switzer meant when he called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you."
- 2017, Jeff Flake, Conscience of a Conservative, page 15:
- For the record, I was not at all angry. I did want to talk about what conservatives stand for beyond the smashmouth politics that sometimes dominates campaigns.