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To bash is to hit very hard or to say unkind things about someone or something.
(verb)- An example of bash is to stub your toe into a chair if you are not being careful.
- An example of bash is what you might say to someone for whom you have great distaste.
The definition of a bash is a strong hit, or a fun celebration.
(noun)- An example of a bash is a baseball player's homerun hit.
- An example of a bash is a big New Year's Eve party.
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See bash in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb
- to strike with a violent blow; smash (in)
- to attack or abuse, as with blows or with words
Origin: echoic; akin to or < ? ON *basca, to strike
noun
- Informal a violent blow
- ☆ Slang a gala event or party
See bash in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb bashed, bash·ing, bash·es verb, transitive
- To strike with a heavy, crushing blow: The thug bashed the hood of the car with a sledgehammer.
- To beat or assault severely: The police arrested the men who bashed an immigrant in the park.
- Informal To criticize (another) harshly, accusatorially, and threateningly: “He bashed the . . . government unmercifully over the . . . spy affair” (Lally Weymouth).
Informal
To engage in harsh, accusatory, threatening criticism.
noun- Informal A heavy, crushing blow.
- Slang A celebration; a party.
Origin:
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.Related Forms:
- bashˈer noun
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