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bashing

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bash⋅ing

  [bash-ing]
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–noun
1. the act of beating, whipping, or thrashing: a series of unsolved bashings and robberies.
2. a decisive defeat: We gave the visiting team a good bashing.
3. (used in combination)
a. unprovoked physical assaults against members of a specified group: gay-bashing.
b. verbal abuse, as of a group or a nation: feminist-bashing; China-bashing.
Origin:
1725–35; bash + ing1

bash

  [bash]
–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
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
bash [bæʃ]

  1. n.
    a wild party; a night on the town. : What a bash! I'm exhausted!
  2. in.
    to party; to celebrate. : Let's go out and bash, how 'bout it?
  3. tv.
    to criticize; to join in the destructive criticism of someone or something. : A bunch of old Jonathan Computer fans love to bash Macrosoft whenever they can.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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bashing

  1. n.
    criticizing; defaming. (A combining form that follows the name of the person or thing being criticized.) : On TV they had a long session of candidate bashing, and then they read the sports news.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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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