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bash

  [bash]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to strike with a crushing or smashing blow.
2. Chiefly British, Canadian. to hurl harsh verbal abuse at.
–noun
3. a crushing blow.
4. Informal. a thoroughly enjoyable, lively party.
—Idioms
5. have a bash (at), British. to attempt; make an attempt.
6. on the bash, British. working as a prostitute.
Origin:
1635–45; perh. alter. of pash1

Related forms:
basher, noun
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bash   (bāsh)   
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.]
bash'er n.
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Bash

Bash\, v. t. & i. [OE. baschen, baissen. See Abash.] To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance. [Obs.]

His countenance was bold and bashed not. --Spenser.

Bash

Bash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bashing.] [Perh. of imitative origin; or cf. Dan. baske to strike, bask a blow, Sw. basa to beat, bas a beating.] To strike heavily; to beat; to crush. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Hall Caine.

Bash her open with a rock. --Kipling.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : bash
Spanish: echar abajo, forzar a golpes,
German: einschlagen,
Japanese: ぶんなぐる
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bash 
"to strike violently," 1641, perhaps of Scand. origin (cf. Swed. basa "to baste, whip, flog, lash," Da. baske "to beat, strike, cudgel"), from O.N. *basca "to strike;" or the whole group may be independently derived and echoic. Fig. sense of "abuse verbally or in writing" is from 1948. On a bash "on a drunken spree" is slang from 1901, which gave the word its sense of "party."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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bash
Bourne Again SHell. GNU's command interpreter for Unix. Bash is a Posix-compatible shell with full Bourne shell syntax, and some C shell commands built in. The Bourne Again Shell supports Emacs-style command-line editing, job control, functions, and on-line help. Written by Brian Fox of UCSB.
The latest version is 1.14.1. It includes a yacc parser, the interpreter and documentation.
(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/bash-1.14.1.tar.gz) or from a GNU archive site. E-mail: . Usenet newsgroup: gnu.bash.bug.
(1994-07-15)

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