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smash-mouth

smash-mouth adjective: violent; aggressive; vigorous.

Adjective

smash-mouth (comparative more smash-mouth, superlative most smash-mouth)

  1. Violent; aggressive; vigorous.
    • 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.1984, Newsweek
    • 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."1986, TIME

Forms of smash-mouth

comparativemore smash-mouth
superlativemost smash-mouth
alternative formsmashmouth

Origin of smash-mouth

Originating in American football.

Questions about smash-mouth

What does smash-mouth mean?
Smash-mouth means violent; aggressive; vigorous.
What part of speech is smash-mouth?
Smash-mouth is an adjective.

Words near smash-mouth in the dictionary

  1. smash someone's head
  2. smash the stack
  3. smash up
  4. smash-and-grab
  5. smash-and-grabs
  6. smash-mouth
  7. smashable
  8. smashboard
  9. smashboards
  10. smashburger
  11. smashburgers

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