smasheroo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A blockbuster; a movie, play, song, or other form of commercial entertainment that is a smash hit.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "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 ..."
- "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.""
- "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."
- "It was his first number one, his first smasheroo, his first block buster, but definitely not his first 45 revolutions per minute."
- "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."
- "And is my little do tomorrow gonna be a smasheroo, or a smasheroo?"
Etymology
From smash + -eroo.