Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To strike with a heavy, crushing blow: The thug bashed the hood of the car with a sledgehammer.
- v. To beat or assault severely: The police arrested the men who bashed an immigrant in the park.
- v. Informal To criticize (another) harshly, accusatorially, and threateningly: "He bashed the . . . government unmercifully over the . . . spy affair” ( Lally Weymouth).
- v. Informal To engage in harsh, accusatory, threatening criticism.
- n. Informal A heavy, crushing blow.
- n. Slang A celebration; a party.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To strike with a heavy blow; beat violently; knock out of shape.
- To strike; knock.
- n. A blow that knocks out of shape, or leaves a dent.
- To daunt; dismay; abash; confound; confuse.
- To be daunted, dismayed, or confounded.
- To be abashed or ashamed; be put out of countenance.
- In coal-mining, to fill with rubbish (space from which coal has been taken).
Wiktionary
- v. To strike heavily.
- v. To collide.
- v. To criticize harshly.
- v. To submit to Bash.org, or QDB.
- n. A large party; gala event.
- n. An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
- v. To strike heavily; to beat; to crush.
- n. a forceful blow, especially one that does damage to its target.
- n. a elaborate or lively social gathering or party.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an uproarious party
- n. a vigorous blow
- v. hit hard
Etymologies
- Origin unknown.
Examples
“Just tell bash where to find it, when you type it on the command line: bash$ gcc - o hello hello. c bash$. / hello Hello World!”
“If you compile a program, you might find that you can't run it: bash$ gcc - o hello hello. c bash$ hello bash: hello: command not found”
“The "Saved by the Booze" bash is back by popular demand.”
The Huffington Post: Mr. Belding's In Town: 'Saved By The Booze' Bash Tonight At McFadden's
“The "Saved by the Booze" bash is back by popular ...”
The Huffington Post: Mr. Belding's In Town: 'Saved By The Booze' Bash Tonight At McFadden's
“What we bash is stupid policies that keep them from breaking out of the cycle of poverty …”
Matthew Yglesias » Bob McDonnell To Attempt First Non-Horrible SOTU Response in American History
“Matt - I know the urge to “corporate” bash is strong, but have you even read our stuff?”
“So, a underground Reaver bash, is what comes next, to try and remove the menace before their super-wizard runs amok with an army.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Wizardborn - Dave Wolverton
“There are probably scripts out there that do that kind of thing in bash, perl, PHP or whatever.”
“The Los Vegas bash is being heralded as a great success – but from what I read, it was nothing more than a great stroking party.”
“And since ST's birthday bash is over, we can finally take the time to assemble his new toys (this is my favorite, from MIL) and convince him that pedaling his "big boy bike" is preferable to scooting along with his Big Wheel.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bash’.
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fight
words for fighting
bout, fight, match, smackdown, blue, stoush, battle, clash, fuss, fray, ruckus, tussle and 91 more...
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo / common words used in computer programming.
( randomness, words )ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 392 more...
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Computers
Words that have different meanings pertaining to computers than in the "real" world.
root, terminal, windows, apple, crash, kernel, mouse, port, bus, key, shift, drive and 8 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 86 more...
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Phonestheme: -ASH, the Action Movie
Grateful credit to http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crash, smash, dash, bash, brash, trash, rash, lash, thrash, cash, clash, flash and 7 more...
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Violent Verbs
Words that have violent connotations.
pummel, grip, behead, punch, bash, slash, grab, break, smash, rip, chop, hack and 2 more...
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My List
frugal, vicissitude, scatter, fiduciary, calf, mesmerize, eke, unkempt, callousness, heist, fumble, flinty and 31 more...

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