bashing

[bash-ing]

noun

1. the act of beating, whipping, or thrashing.

   a series of unsolved bashings and robberies.

2. a decisive defeat.

   We gave the visiting team a good bashing.

3. (used in combination)

   1. unprovoked physical assaults against members of a specified group.

      gay-bashing.

   2. verbal abuse, as of a group or a nation.

      feminist-bashing; China-bashing.

-bashing

combining form

1. informal

   1. indicating a malicious attack on members of a particular group

      queer-bashing

      union-bashing

   2. indicating any of various other activities

      Bible-bashing

      spud-bashing

      square-bashing

Other Word Forms

• -basher combining form

Word History and Origins

Origin of bashing¹

First recorded in 1725–35; bash + -ing ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Collier’s investment in Unrivaled has been portrayed at times as a conflict of interest—and yes, bashing one league while you’re building another presents some interesting optics, to say the least.

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The company had intervened in the 2004 presidential election in favor of President George W. Bush by running a “documentary” bashing Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic nominee.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, many of them masked, are running traffic checkpoints and bashing in car windows with batons in their search for migrants.

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If you are protesting against ICE raids and immigrant bashing, you should also be protesting for remaking U.S. immigration according to economic fundamentals.

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"The current was bashing against me the whole time, I don't think I moved for three hours," he said.

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