smasher

Noun

smasher (countable and uncountable, plural smashers)

1. Something that, or someone who, smashes.
   • With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such...1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 53
   1. (historical) A person employed to break up waste rock.
2. (slang) An attractive person (see also smashing).
   • You got engaged on the day that I moved out. It's OK / She's a smasher, perfectly suited to the role2019, “Magic of Meghan”, in Sweet Princess EP, performed by Dry Cleaning
3. (dated, slang) Anything very large or extraordinary; a whopper.
4. (UK, obsolete, slang) One who passes counterfeit money.
   • The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90
5. (UK, obsolete, slang) The counterfeit money itself.