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going to smash

going to smash is the present participle and gerund of go to smash.

Meaning of go to smash

Verb

go to smash (third-person singular simple present goes to smash, present participle going to smash, simple past went to smash, past participle gone to smash)

  1. (dated, slang) To go to ruin; to fail disastrously.
    • […] do we see any improbability in the bankrupt's elder brother doing this much for him after his shoe business went to smash […]1913, William Miller Collier, Mark L. Whitney, James Webster Eaton, American Bankruptcy Reports Annotated, page 654
    Synonyms:
    smash

Questions about going to smash

What is going to smash the present participle and gerund of?
Going to smash is the present participle and gerund of go to smash.

Words near going to smash in the dictionary

  1. going to sea
  2. going to seed
  3. going to shit
  4. going to show
  5. going to sleep
  6. going to smash
  7. going to someone's head
  8. going to the bad
  9. going to the bathroom
  10. going to the bow-wows
  11. going to the country

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