Definition of "smash-up" [smash-up]

• A smash; a crash; especially, a serious accident on a railway, as when one train runs into another. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Director Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) tries a smash-up of irreverent comedy and non-stop action, à la Lethal Weapon."
• "I used to hunt squirrels in the woods between subdivisions there; carried a homemade fishing pole to the nearby creek's deepest pools; caught crawfish by turning over rocks in the shallows; rode my bike to a friend's house to play smash-up derby with model cars; and it's where I had to sneak past the local bully's house by cutting through his neighbor's back yard."
• "Sooner or later he is going to break out, and then there's going to be a smash-up."