smash up

See also: smashup

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smash up (third-person singular simple present smashes up, present participle smashing up, simple past and past participle smashed up)

1. (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.
   • c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:

     You remember, Harry, when the working men in America revolted against the Robots and smashed them up, and when the people gave the Robots firearms against the rebels. And then when the governments turned the Robots into soldiers, and there were so many wars.

   • 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:

     The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To injure or maim.

Derived terms

• smashup (noun)

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• mash-ups, mashups