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sma rt card (smart cards ) N‑COUNT A smart card is a plastic card which looks like a credit card and can store and process computer data.

sma rt dru g (smart drugs ) N‑COUNT [usu pl] Smart drugs are drugs which some people think can improve your memory and intelligence.

smart|en /smɑː ^r t ^ə n/ (smartens , smartening , smartened )

▸  smarten up PHRASAL VERB If you smarten yourself or a place up , you make yourself or the place look neater and tidier. □ [V P n] Russell, Bloomsbury and Bedford Squares have been very much smartened up. □ [V n P ] She had wisely smartened herself up. □ [V P ] …a medical student who refused to smarten up.

smart|ly /smɑː ^r tli/

1 ADV [ADV with v] If someone moves or does something smartly , they do it quickly and neatly. [WRITTEN ] □  The housekeeper moved smartly to the desk to answer the call.

2 → see also smart

sma rt phone (smart phones ) also smartphone N‑COUNT A smart phone is a type of mobile phone that can perform many of the operations that a computer does, such as accessing the internet.

smash ◆◇◇ /smæ ʃ/ (smashes , smashing , smashed )

1 VERB If you smash something or if it smashes , it breaks into many pieces, for example when it is hit or dropped. □ [V n] Someone smashed a bottle. □ [V + into ] Two or three glasses fell off and smashed into pieces.

2 VERB If you smash through a wall, gate, or door, you get through it by hitting and breaking it. □ [V + through ] The demonstrators used trucks to smash through the embassy gates. □ [V n + into ] Soldiers smashed their way into his office.

3 VERB If something smashes or is smashed against something solid, it moves very fast and with great force against it. □ [V prep/adv] The bottle smashed against a wall. □ [V n prep] He smashed his fist into Anthony's face.

4 VERB To smash a political group or system means to deliberately destroy it. [INFORMAL ] □ [V n] Their attempts to clean up politics and smash the power of party machines failed.

5 VERB If you smash something, you do it extremely well or successfully. [INFORMAL ] □ [V n] We're really going to smash this task. □ [V it ] I didn't know she could sing like that. She smashed it.

6 → see also smashed , smashing

▸  smash down PHRASAL VERB If you smash down a door, building, or other large heavy object, you hit it hard and break it until it falls on the ground. □ [V P n] The crowd tried to smash down the door of the police station. [Also V n P ]

▸  smash up

1 PHRASAL VERB If you smash something up , you completely destroy it by hitting it and breaking it into many pieces. □ [V P n] She took revenge on her ex-boyfriend by smashing up his home. □ [V n P ] You could smash the drawer up with a hammer.

2 PHRASAL VERB If you smash up your car, you damage it by crashing it into something. □ [V P n] All you told me was that he'd smashed up yet another car. [Also V n P ]

sma sh-and-gra b (smash-and-grabs ) also smash and grab N‑COUNT [oft N n] A smash-and-grab is a robbery in which a person breaks a shop window, takes the things that are on display there, and runs away with them. □  …a smash-and-grab raid.

smashed /smæ ʃt/ ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] Someone who is smashed is extremely drunk. [INFORMAL ]

sma sh hi t (smash hits ) N‑COUNT A smash hit or a smash is a very popular show, play, or song. □  The show was a smash hit.

smash|ing /smæ ʃ I ŋ/ ADJ If you describe something or someone as smashing , you mean that you like them very much. [BRIT , INFORMAL , OLD-FASHIONED ] □  She's a smashing girl.