smashup


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smash·up

 (smăsh′ŭp′)
n.
1. A total collapse or defeat.
2. A serious collision between vehicles; a wreck.
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smashup

noun
1. An abrupt disastrous failure:
2. A wrecking of a vehicle:
Informal: crackup, pileup.
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A negligent driver was blamed for a three-vehicle smashup at a Dubai hypermarket parking lot.
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Early reports of the multivehicle smashup raised the possibility that someone in one of the cars had gotten out of the vehicle only to be struck by another, but that did not turn out to be the case, he said.
TEHRAN (FNA)- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, possibly the result of a smashup between large asteroids and this type of collision can eventually lead to the formation of planets.
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We will be playing lots of stuff with the band from Love It To Life and a lot of songs from my past records with full tilt high energy madness and the occasional story sing-a-long smashup. Bring your own towel.
Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never been seen before.
In 1993 Hayward and Peterson warned, "The Medicare program is heading for a smashup, yet our political leaders speak only of instituting new federal health-insurance programs that would cover everyone." Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.