From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsmash something ↔ up phrasal verbDESTROYto deliberately destroy something by hitting it Hooligans started smashing the place up. → smash→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
smash up• And he robbed Madge's house and smashed it up.• I even asked her if it was her that smashed that kiosk up!• It bought out the inner child in me, the one that wants to smash things up.• So, armed with the baseball bat that every convivial hostelry keeps handy, Peggy smashed the joint up.• I suppose now that I could have freaked out and started smashing the place up, getting myself expelled as a result.• Get robbed of a race in the weighing room, smash your shoulder up in a gallop - that's racing.• I imagined Mark and me high on the Walker, on our sixth day, smashing our way up the face. 