as in collision
the violent coming together of two bodies into destructive contact
three cars were involved in a smashup on my street last night
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Recent Examples of smashup
Subsequent studies have cast doubt on this supposedly inevitable smashup.
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Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 May 2026
Jury Duty’s second season was executive produced by comedy veterans David Bernad, Eisenberg, Stupnitsky, Jake Szymanski, Anthony King, Chris Kula, James Marsden and Ruben Fleischer as well as alums of Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen’s reality-comedy smashups Todd Schulman and Nicholas Hatton.
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Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
11 May 2026
In 2025, however, an orbital smashup would be almost certain.
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Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
18 Dec. 2025
This recipe is the perfect holiday smashup!
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Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
18 Nov. 2025
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 May 2026
Jury Duty’s second season was executive produced by comedy veterans David Bernad, Eisenberg, Stupnitsky, Jake Szymanski, Anthony King, Chris Kula, James Marsden and Ruben Fleischer as well as alums of Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen’s reality-comedy smashups Todd Schulman and Nicholas Hatton.
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Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
11 May 2026
In 2025, however, an orbital smashup would be almost certain.
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Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
18 Dec. 2025
This recipe is the perfect holiday smashup!
—
Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
18 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smashup
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The collision sent Bowie careening into a minivan parked nearby.
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Now, a team of researchers assessed this signal and found a feature in the gravitational waves represents the collective event horizon of the involved black holes at the very moment of that collision.
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The military declared McKinney dead in March 1946, though no crash site had been identified, let alone any remains of the man from Providence, Rhode Island.
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The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said it was not notified of the crash, according to local reports.
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“Smashup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smashup. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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