bash

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Held to raise awareness and funds for the preservation of London's parklands, the gala bash was a jam-packed mix of champagne reception, auction and after-dinner entertainment (above).

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  1. transitive verb To strike with a heavy, crushing blow: The thug bashed the hood of the car with a sledgehammer.
  2. transitive verb To beat or assault severely: The police arrested the men who bashed an immigrant in the park.
  3. transitive verb Informal To criticize (another) harshly, accusatorially, and threateningly: "He bashed the . . . government unmercifully over the . . . spy affair” (Lally Weymouth).
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  • I'm not going to Ilene bash or L word bash because I loved every minute of the show up until Season 6! —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
  • Held to raise awareness and funds for the preservation of London's parklands, the gala bash was a jam-packed mix of champagne reception, auction and after-dinner entertainment (above). —  The First Post: Latest
  • This week that modish MTV yoof-bash, the Video Music Awards, was graced by the presence of Spears. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • A heterosexual children's author would've had a fiftieth wedding anniversary bash, and probably wouldn't even have made news. —  The Republic of T.
  • According to guests at the fake bash, at 1. 30am organisers told them Ne-Yo was stuck in traffic. —  ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. English dial. or colloq.; in popular apprehension regarded as imitative (cf. bang, dash, smash, etc.), but prob. of Scandinavian origin, assibilated form of bask (now obsolete; cf. dial. basking, a sound thrashing), from Danish baske, slap, drub, Swedish basa, whip, drub, beat.
  2. Cf. Danish bask, a blow, Swedish bas, whipping, beating; from the verb.
  3. from Middle English basshen, baschen, baisen, by apheresis for abashen, etc., abash: see abash.
  4. English dial.; perhaps another use of bash.
 

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