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basher

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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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