Lark and Smash

noun

• North American songbirds having a yellow breast.
  • synonyms: meadowlark
• A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.
  • synonyms: pipit, titlark
• Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing.
• Any carefree episode.
  • synonyms: escapade

verb

• Play boisterously.
  • usage: "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"
  • synonyms: frolic, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about

• (v.i.) To catch larks; as, to go larking.
• (n.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks or horned by the shore larks or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.
• (v.i.) A frolic; a jolly time.
• (v.i.) To sport; to frolic.

• English, American: From the English word for the type of songbird
• English: Lark

noun

• A vigorous blow.
  • usage: "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
  • synonyms: knock, bash, bang, belt
• A serious collision (especially of motor vehicles.
  • synonyms: smash-up
• A hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head.
  • synonyms: overhead
• The act of colliding with something.
  • usage: "his crash through the window"; "the fullback's smash into the defensive line"
  • synonyms: crash
• A conspicuous success.
  • usage: "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"
  • synonyms: hit, smasher, strike, bang

verb

• Hit hard.
  • usage: "He smashed a 3-run homer"
  • synonyms: nail, boom, blast
• Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over.
  • usage: "Smash a plate"
  • synonyms: dash
• Reduce to bankruptcy.
  • usage: "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"
  • synonyms: bankrupt, ruin, break
• Hit violently.
  • usage: "She smashed her car against the guard rail"
• Humiliate or depress completely.
  • usage: "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
  • synonyms: crush, demolish
• Damage or destroy as if by violence.
  • usage: "The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
  • synonyms: bang up, smash up
• Hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke.
• Collide or strike violently and suddenly.
  • usage: "The motorcycle smashed into the guard rail"
• Overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful. )
  • usage: "The police smashed the drug ring after they were tipped off"
• Break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow.
  • usage: "The window smashed"

adverb

• With a loud crash.
  • usage: "the car went smash through the fence"
  • synonyms: smashingly

• (v.t.) To hit (the ball) from above the level of the net with a very hard overhand stroke.
• (n.) Hence, bankruptcy.
• (v.i.) To break up or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.
• (v.t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
• (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.