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smash hit

smash hit noun: something that is tremendously popular or successful.

Noun

smash hit (plural smash hits)

  1. (idiomatic) Something that is tremendously popular or successful.
    • The cookies, though soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party.
    • All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.1971, Library Journal, volume 96, page 1569

Forms of smash hit

pluralsmash hits

Questions about smash hit

What does smash hit mean?
Smash hit means something that is tremendously popular or successful.
What part of speech is smash hit?
Smash hit is a noun.
What is the plural of smash hit?
The plural of smash hit is smash hits.

Words near smash hit in the dictionary

  1. smash cake
  2. smash cakes
  3. smash cut
  4. smash cuts
  5. smash down
  6. smash hit
  7. smash hits
  8. smash in
  9. smash it
  10. smash powers
  11. smash product

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