"smash hit" meaning in English

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      "form": "smash hits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The cookies, though soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Library Journal, volume 96, page 1569",
          "text": "All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Something that is tremendously popular or successful."
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        [
          "popular",
          "popular"
        ],
        [
          "successful",
          "successful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Something that is tremendously popular or successful."
      ],
      "tags": [
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "something tremendously successful",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bomba"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "something tremendously successful",
          "word": "jättimenestys"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "something tremendously successful",
          "word": "jymymenestys"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "something tremendously successful",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Bombenerfolg"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "something tremendously successful",
          "word": "bombasiker"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "smash hit"
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The cookies, though soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Library Journal, volume 96, page 1569",
          "text": "All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Something that is tremendously popular or successful."
      ],
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          "popular"
        ],
        [
          "successful",
          "successful"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Something that is tremendously popular or successful."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "something tremendously successful",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something tremendously successful",
      "word": "jättimenestys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something tremendously successful",
      "word": "jymymenestys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something tremendously successful",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bombenerfolg"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "something tremendously successful",
      "word": "bombasiker"
    }
  ],
  "word": "smash hit"
}