smash up

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smash up (third-person singular simple present smashes up, present participle smashing up, simple past and past participle smashed up)

1. (idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) To destroy, or be destroyed by smashing.
   • 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:

     The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To injure or maim.

• smashup (noun)

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