smash hit


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Noun1.smash hit - an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)smash hit - an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)
hit, smasher, smash, bang, strike - a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"
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smash hit

noun
Informal. A dazzling, often sudden instance of success:
Informal: smash, ten-strike, wow.
Slang: boff, boffo, boffola.
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Translations
نَجاح ساحِق لأغْنِيَةٍ جَديدَه
největší hit
smashit
jättimenestysjymymenestys
bombasiker
sÿning/lag sem slær í gegn
najväčší hit
büyük başarı kazanan yapıt

smash hit

n (inf)Superhit m (inf); her new boyfriend was a smash hit with her familyihr neuer Freund kam bei ihrer Familie unwahrscheinlich gut an (inf)
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smash

(smӕʃ) verb
1. (sometimes with up) to (cause to) break in pieces or be ruined. The plate dropped on the floor and smashed into little pieces; This unexpected news had smashed all his hopes; He had an accident and smashed up his car.
2. to strike with great force; to crash. The car smashed into a lamp-post.
noun
1. (the sound of) a breakage; a crash. A plate fell to the ground with a smash; There has been a bad car smash.
2. a strong blow. He gave his opponent a smash on the jaw.
3. in tennis etc, a hard downward shot.
ˈsmashing adjective
marvellous; splendid. What a smashing idea!; a smashing new bike.
smash hit
a song, show etc that is a great success. This play was a smash hit in New York.
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It was smash hit after smash hit, but the high point was a stunning version of Crow's awesome ballad The Difficult Kind from her amazing third album The Globe Sessions.
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This is his first full-length tour since 2013's smash hit Moonshine Jungle World Tour, which sold two million tickets worldwide across 155 sold-out dates.
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She convinces her penniless divorcee sister, Josephine, to pen it under her name, promising her the proceeds--a great trade-off until the novel becomes the smash hit of the year.
While some thought it may not score high on the music charts, Fares was confident it'd be a smash hit. And a smash hit it was!
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