Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together. · A traffic collision. · Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc). · A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
Uncertain, probably of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Swedish smask (“to smack with the lips”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”).
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