smash hit en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Meanings
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(idiomatic) Something that is tremendously popular or successful.
The cookies, though soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party.
All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.
1971, Library Journal, volume 96, page 1569:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| smash hits | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (5)
fi jättimenestys (something tremendously successful) · de Bombenerfolg (something tremendously successful) · fi jymymenestys (something tremendously successful) · hu bombasiker (something tremendously successful) · cs bomba (something tremendously successful)