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Dictionary: bash   (băsh) pronunciation

v., bashed, bash·ing, bash·es.

v.tr.
  1. To strike with a heavy, crushing blow: The thug bashed the hood of the car with a sledgehammer.
  2. To beat or assault severely: The police arrested the men who bashed an immigrant in the park.
  3. Informal. To criticize (another) harshly, accusatorially, and threateningly: "He bashed the . . . government unmercifully over the . . . spy affair" (Lally Weymouth).
v.intr. Informal

To engage in harsh, accusatory, threatening criticism.

n.
  1. Informal. A heavy, crushing blow.
  2. Slang. A celebration; a party.

[Origin unknown.]

basher bash'er n.

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verb

    To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply: catch, clout, hit, knock, pop, slam, slog, slug, smash, smite, sock, strike, swat, thwack, whack, wham, whop. Informal biff, bop, clip, wallop. Slang belt, conk, paste. Idioms: let someone have it, sock it to someone. See attack/defend, strike/miss.

noun

  1. A sudden sharp, powerful stroke: bang, blow, clout, crack, hit, lick, pound, slug, sock, swat, thwack, welt, whack, wham, whop. Informal biff, bop, clip, wallop. Slang belt, conk, paste. See attack/defend, strike/miss.
  2. A big, exuberant party: celebration, shindig, shindy. Slang blast, blowout. See group, restraint/unrestraint, work/play.
  3. A large or important social gathering: affair, celebration, festivity, fete, function, gala, occasion, party, soiree. Informal do. See group, work/play.

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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a vigorous blow
  Synonyms: knock, bang, smash, belt

Meaning #2: an uproarious party
  Synonyms: do, brawl


The verb bash has one meaning:

Meaning #1: hit hard
  Synonyms: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk


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Bash may refer to:

  • To hit something

In sport

  • WWE The Great American Bash, a pay-per-view professional wrestling event held annually by World Wrestling Entertainment since 2004.
    • The Bash (2009), the new shortened name for WWE The Great American Bash starting from 2009.
  • The Great American Bash, a former professional wrestling event held annually by defunct organisation World Championship Wrestling and the National Wrestling Alliance between 1985-2000.
  • Bash at the Beach, a former pay-per-view professional wrestling event held annually by defunct organisation World Championship Wrestling every July between 1994-2000.
  • KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, the domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Australia
  • Plot 'n' bash, a term used to describe a style of navigational information used on road rallies

In music

  • Bash & Pop, the band that Tommy Stinson formed after the dissolution of The Replacements
  • Bash!, the third full length and the first Christmas album from the a cappella group Rockapella
  • Pokémon Christmas Bash, Christmas songs performed by characters of the Pokémon television series

In television, theatre and film

  • Bash: Latter-Day Plays are three one act plays by Neil LaBute (1999)
  • Killer Bash, a homoerotic horror movie released in 2005, directed by David DeCoteau
  • Behind the Bash, a show hosted by Giada De Laurentiis currently on Food Network
  • The Bash Street Kids and the Bash Street School, which appear in a UK comic, The Beano, and in an annual book, The Bash Street Kids Annual
  • Joe Bash, an American television series that ran on the ABC network from March 28 to May 9, 1986

In computing

  • Bash, a Unix command shell written for the GNU project
    • Visual Bash, an interactive script for Bash that uses a graphical user interface
  • Bug bash, a software testing technique where developers, testers, program managers, usability researchers, designers, etc search together for software bugs

Electronic games

  • Bust-A-Move Bash!, a video game released by Majesco for Nintendo's Wii console
  • Crash Bash, a game for the PlayStation
  • Franco Bash, a video game character in the Fatal Fury series of fighting games
  • Monster Bash, a video game created by Apogee Software

People

  • Baby Bash, also known as Baby Beesh (born 1975 as Ronnie Ray Bryant), a Latin American hip-hop artist
  • Dana Bash (born 1972), a CNN reporter and anchorwoman.
  • Todd Bash (born 1965), an avant-garde playwright from Los Angeles, California
  • Bash, nickname of E. J. H. Nash (1898-1982), an influential evangelical clergyman

Place names

"Bash" and similar means "head" in Turkic languages.

A party or gala event

Other

  • Bird strike is also called BASH (bird aircraft strike hazard)
  • Bash Back, a network of radical, anarchist and anti-authoritarian queer projects within the United States
  • Bash Chelik, ("Man of Steel"), a famous Serbian folk tale
  • British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH), UK charity and member of the Headache UK alliance
  • Qizilbash, a Muslim religious brotherhood
  • Kitbashing, a scale modeler's term for modifying a commercial model kit into a unique or unavailable model

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - slå, baske løs på
v. intr. - støde ind i, løbe ind i
n. - hårdt slag

idioms:

  • bash in    smadre, slå ind
  • bash out    smadre, slå vildt på
  • bash someone's brains in    smadre nogens hovede, slå nogens hovede i smadder
  • bash up    tæve, slå på tæven

Nederlands (Dutch)
stoten, botsen, slaan, opvullen, stoot, fuif, poging

Français (French)
v. tr. - frapper, cogner, (lit, fig) se cogner
v. intr. - continuer avec (qch), cogner
n. - coup, coup de poing, bosse, surboum (fam)

idioms:

  • bash in    enfoncer, cabosser, défoncer
  • bash on    continuer avec (qch)
  • bash out    produire vite, pas cher et en quantités
  • bash someone's brains in    défoncer le crâne de qn, rudoyer qn
  • bash something out    expédier qch, jouer (un air)
  • bash up    cabosser, bousiller (une voiture) (fam), (GB) tabasser
  • have a bash    vas-y, essaie toujours (excl)

Deutsch (German)
v. - stoßen, schlagen
n. - Schlag, Versuch, Party

idioms:

  • bash in    einschlagen
  • bash on    trotz Schwierigkeiten weitermachen
  • bash out    auswerfen, massenweise produzieren
  • bash someone's brains in    jemandem den Schädel einschlagen
  • bash something out    etwas sehr schnell produzieren
  • bash up    zusammenschlagen, verbeulen
  • have a bash    etw. [mal] probieren od. versuchen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - κοπανάω, χτυπώ δυνατά, στηλιτεύω
n. - δυνατό χτύπημα, τρικούβερτο γλέντι, ξεφάντωμα, προσπάθεια, (καθομ.) πρόχειρο κατάλυμα

idioms:

  • bash in    στραπατσάρω, κάνω βαθούλωμα, ρίχνω με σπρωξιές
  • bash out    ξεπετώ, κοπανώ
  • bash someone's brains in    σαπίζω κάποιον στο ξύλο
  • bash up    τσακίζω, συντρίβω

Italiano (Italian)
urtare, pestare

idioms:

  • bash in    sfondare
  • bash out    distruggere
  • bash up    picchiare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - surrar, envergonhar
n. - pancada (f)

idioms:

  • bash in    bater causando ferimentos sérios
  • bash out    tentar resolver um problema sem realmente saber como
  • bash up    arrebentar (Aut.), espancar violentamente (Brit.)

Русский (Russian)
ударить, врезать

idioms:

  • bash in    врезаться
  • bash out    сбацать
  • bash up    отлупить, помять

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - asestar un golpe, dar un golpe, golpear, estrellar
v. intr. - darse un golpe, golpearse, estrellarse
n. - golpe aplastante

idioms:

  • bash in    romper con un golpe
  • bash on    propinar un golpe
  • bash out    producción masiva o sin cuidar los detalles
  • bash someone's brains in    dar un golpe fuerte en la cabeza
  • bash something out    producción masiva o sin cuidar los detalles
  • bash up    dar un golpe
  • have a bash    intentar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - slå, drämma (till), klå upp
n. - våldsamt slag

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
痛击, 猛攻, 猛地撞毁, 当妓女, 怒殴, 猛击

idioms:

  • bash in    打坏
  • bash out    打破
  • bash someone's brains in    打死某人
  • bash up    打破, 弄碎

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 痛擊, 猛攻
v. intr. - 猛地撞毀, 當妓女
n. - 怒毆, 猛擊

idioms:

  • bash in    打壞
  • bash out    打破
  • bash someone's brains in    打死某人
  • bash up    打破, 弄碎

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - ~을 세게 때리다
v. intr. - 충돌하다, 매춘하다
n. - 강타, 매우 즐거운 파티, 시도

idioms:

  • bash in    심한 손상을 줄 정도로 세게 때리다
  • bash out    생각이나 고려 없이 많은 양을 빨리 만들다
  • bash up    폭력적으로 공격하여 해를 입히다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 強く打つ, 打ち壊す
n. - 強打

idioms:

  • bash in    叩いてへこます, 強打して傷付ける
  • bash out    ぶちのめす
  • bash someone's brains in    頭をひどくなぐる
  • bash up    ぶちのめす

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) ضرب, لكم (الاسم) ضربه, لكمه, حفله صاخبه, محاوله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮חבטה, מהלומה, חבט, הכה, הלם, הזיק, ביקר לחומרה‬
v. intr. - ‮חבט, הכה, הלם, התנגש עם‬
n. - ‮חבטה, מהלומה‬


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