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名詞

smashup (複数形 smashups)

1. (informal) An abrupt, damaging breakdown or failure.
2. (informal) A violent collision involving one or more vehicles.
3. An instance or the result of smashing; that which has been smashed into pieces.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 206:

     I discovered that a lot of imported drainage-pipes for the settlement had been tumbled in there. There wasn’t one that was not broken. It was a wanton smash-up.