smash up

1. 1.

   damage or destroy as if by violence

   “The teenager banged up the car of his mother”

   Synonymsbang upsmash

   Broaderdamage

Questions about smash up

What does smash up mean?

smash up means "damage or destroy as if by violence".

What is another word for smash up?

Close synonyms include bang up, smash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is smash up a common word?

smash up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.