smasheroo

smasheroo noun: a blockbuster; a movie, play, song, or other form of commercial entertainment that is a smash hit.

Noun

smasheroo (plural smasheroos)

(slang) A blockbuster; a movie, play, song, or other form of commercial entertainment that is a smash hit.
- The third of Neil Simon's Broadway comedy smasheroos to be filmed by Paramount, this is the story of two men, one divorced and one about to be, who become apartment mates ...1962, Paramount Pictures, inc, Consolidated Statement of Assets and Liabilities and Profit and Loss Accounts, page 17
- Taking notes at one of the monthly meetings, when the league chose the shows that would tour on its subscription series in seventeen cities, she admired Mike's loud and brash arguments on behalf of his latest "smasheroo."1981, Marianne Langner Zeitlin, Mira's passage, page 20
(broadly, slang) A big success
- A couple of years ago when grain speculators wanted to unload a bumper crop of wheat, ole Dick Nixon helped arrange a smasheroo of a wheat sale to the Russians.1975, News and Views - Ohio AFL-CIO.- Volumes 24-28
- And is my little do tomorrow gonna be a smasheroo, or a smasheroo?1963, David Westheimer, J.P. Miller's Days of Wine and Roses, page 111
(slang) A violent collision.
- Afterwards he said his only thought was to get the plane close to the water in case anything happened. It did. "PLOOSHHHHHhhhh-hh-hh-h. What a smasheroo in the drink!1955, American Modeler
- Granted it gets a bit slippery when wet, and now and then will give the old smasheroo to a kneecap — but it endures, gentlemen, it endures.1971, The New Yorker - Volume 47, Part 6, page 45

smasheroo (comparative more smasheroo, superlative most smasheroo)

(slang) Extremetly good; fantastic; smashing.
- Fendi's smasheroo short, short fur belted over shorts, worn with ribby stockings, ribbier over-the-knee socks, Oxford ties .1971, Vogue - Volume 158
- Managing Editor Steinbacher, wearing his other hat. proclaimed the NJF convention "Socko. boffo, smasheroo."1973, Dixon Gayer, The Dixon Line - Volumes 11-12
(slang) Inebriated; smashed.
- "What?" says Leon, spinning around, toasting Freed and Claire with his finally emptied flute of champagne. “I'm smasheroo,” he informs them, unconvincingly.1999, News from the Republic of Letters - Issues 6-9
- I don't get smasheroo. I wasn't smasheroo that night. I had a drink, yes, maybe I had two drinks, but not smasheroo.2015, Norma Fox Mazer, When We First Met

The good news is that she made her feature-film debut in one of the smasheroos of the season, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.1987, Stereo Review - Volume 52, page 121:
It was his first number one, his first smasheroo, his first block buster, but definitely not his first 45 revolutions per minute.2005, Mike Robertson, Parts of a Past, page 309:
As early as the nineteenth century, there were people who insisted that locusts were healthier than pork, but they never became a gastronomic smasheroo in Europe.2005, The Low Countries:
You know, these smasheroos really upset my mother.1968, Stephen McNamee, Seven for the Road, page 58:

From smash + -eroo.

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What does smasheroo mean?: Smasheroo means a blockbuster; a movie, play, song, or other form of commercial entertainment that is a smash hit.
How do you use smasheroo in a sentence?: The good news is that she made her feature-film debut in one of the smasheroos of the season, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
What part of speech is smasheroo?: Smasheroo can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of smasheroo?: The plural of smasheroo is smasheroos.

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