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bach

[bach] Informal.
–noun
1. a bachelor.
2. New Zealand. a small weekend or vacation house or shack.
3. bach it, to live alone or share living quarters with someone of the same sex, usually doing one's own housework, cooking, laundry, etc.

Origin:
1850–55, Americanism; by shortening
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bach also batch   (bāch)   
n.  A bachelor.
intr.v.   bached also batched, bach·ing also batch·ing, bach·es also batch·es
To live alone and keep house as a bachelor.

[Short for bachelor.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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ba(t)ch (it) [bætʃ...]

  1. tv. & in.
    to live alone like a bachelor. : I tried to bach it for a while, but I got too lonely.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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