smashup

Deverbal from smash up.

smashup (plural smashups)

1. (informal) An abrupt, damaging breakdown or failure.
2. (informal) A violent collision involving one or more vehicles.

   Synonym: crash

3. 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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