smash-mouth
adjEtymology
Originating in American football.
Definitions
Violent
Violent; aggressive; vigorous.
- Wacker says his team, the Horned Frogs, plays "smash-mouth football." He means that his lads are (as less poetic coaches are wont to say) "physical," meaning vigorous.
- Penn State quickly scored the first touchdown against Oklahoma, showing roughly what Switzer meant when he called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you."
- For the record, I was not at all angry. I did want to talk about what conservatives stand for beyond the smashmouth politics that sometimes dominates campaigns.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA