bash

[ bash ]

/ bæʃ /

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verb (used with object)

to strike with a crushing or smashing blow.

Chiefly British, Canadian. to hurl harsh verbal abuse at.

noun

a crushing blow.

Informal. a thoroughly enjoyable, lively party.

Nearby words

baseness, basenji, baseplate, bases, basescu, bash, bash up, bashan, bashaw, basher, bashful

Idioms

have a bash (at), British. to attempt; make an attempt.

on the bash, British. working as a prostitute.

Origin of bash

First recorded in 1635–45; perhaps of expressive origin

Related formsbash·er, noun

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Janeane Garofalo bashed President George W. Bush so much over the invasion of Iraq that it likely cost her her own ABC sitcom.
The Political Passion of Robin Williams, From Reagan-Bashing to AIDS Prevention|Asawin Suebsaeng|August 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The assassins apparently first bashed the car Fornari was driving several times, finally pushing it into a guardrail.
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Before the State of the Union began, Texas Republican Randy Weber bashed Obama as a "socialistic dictator" on Twitter.
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But the same “Reaganites” who will bash Obama for compromising with Rouhani once bashed Reagan for compromising with Gorbachev.
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The Maybach that they bashed and reconstructed for their dazzling “Otis” music video was no longer usable as a car.
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No matter what the game has been, somehow or other, they've bashed us, and we've lost out.
The Carpet from Bagdad|Harold MacGrath
The big Bristols swung into line-astern formation and bashed through the first upheaval of Flak-88 shells.
A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F.|Rutherford G. Montgomery
His clothes were running with water, his hat was bashed in, as soft as a piece of rag, and dripping like a thatched roof.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8)|Guy de Maupassant
Long Kirby selected a small man in the crowd, and bashed his hat down over his eyes.
Bob, Son of Battle|Alfred Ollivant
With bashed heads they lay, the former in the tender and latter beside the “Pegasus,” on the huge rocks that flank the shore.
The Story of the Cambrian|C. P. Gasquoine

British Dictionary definitions for bashed

bash

/ (bæʃ) informal /

verb

(tr) to strike violently or crushingly

(tr; often foll by in, down, etc) to smash, break, etc, with a crashing blowto bash a door down

(intr foll by into) to crash (into); collide (with)to bash into a lamppost

to dent or be dentedthis tin is bashed; this cover won't bash easily

noun

a heavy blow, as from a fist

a dent; indentation

a party

have a bash informal to make an attempt

Word Origin for bash

C17: of uncertain origin

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Word Origin and History for bashed (1 of 2)

bash

"a heavy blow," 1805, from bash (v.). Meaning "an attempt" is attested by 1948. On a bash "on a drunken spree" is slang from 1901, which gave the word its sense of "party."

Word Origin and History for bashed (1 of 2)

bash

"to strike violently," 1640s, perhaps of Scandinavian origin, from Old Norse *basca "to strike" (cf. Swedish basa "to baste, whip, flog, lash," Danish baske "to beat, strike, cudgel"); or the whole group might be independently derived and echoic. Figurative sense of "abuse verbally or in writing" is from 1948. Related: Bashed; bashing.

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