Definition of bash in English:

bash

verb baʃbæʃ

[with object]informal

1Strike hard and violently.
she bashed him with the book
no object people bashed on the doors
Example sentencesExamples
- I never got bashed about there like I do down here.
- He grinned as he wrapped his arms around her - that stopped mid-way when he felt a hard broom bashed at the back of his head.
- Even from across the busy road, I could see that each convulsion jerked his body, stretched out dangerously in the traffic, and caused his head to bash against the hard tarmac, grazing it.
- A chunk of carrot fell onto the Locum's head as, raising it in the air, I brought it down as hard as I could and bashed the toy to pieces.
- On the other hand, if the pegs turn out to be a bit too square and the holes too round, then the harder you try to bash the one into the other, the more you'll end up just making a mess.
- Pretty sad, in a way, because like most frustrated men - it was quite common - he used to beat her, bash her, right?
- The men we've interviewed from Bexley say they were beaten and bashed by officers in the home, do you accept that this did take place?
- Keep your eye on these hooks: sometimes even their incredibly sharp points can bend over when the current bashes them against hard rocks.
- While he was preoccupied, I took the rocks out of my pocket, one in each hand, and bashed them on each side of his head as hard as I could.
- At the moment the keys on the piano are bashed rather hard.
- Tasson bashed Shein's head with his fist, hard enough that Shein fell over unconscious.
- I had forgot how much fun bashing the drums really hard is.
- I slammed it again, much harder, and suddenly I'm bashing my wrist against the corner of the wall with all my strength, quickly and repeatedly.
- The sudden lurch of the car caused Kirsten to fly forward violently in her seat, bashing her leg off the dashboard.
- When I came to I saw that I had bashed the guy pretty hard, at one glance I could see that I had broken his jaw.
- Hard drives don't like being bashed around in bags or boots of cars, so be very careful with this baby.
- Hex slowly emerged from his car and had apparently bashed his head hard against the steering wheel, for his head was bleeding.
- She screamed at the top of her lungs and bashed her head into the pillar as hard as she could.
- So perhaps we should bash them, but just not too hard.
- ‘Well, you did scream it at him as you attempted to throttle him while bashing his head into hard concrete,’ Jay told me, grinning.
Synonyms
strike, hit, beat, thump, slap, smack, batter, pound, pummel, thrash, rap, buffet, hammer, bang, knock
informal wallop, belt, whack, clout, clip, clobber, bop, biff, sock, deck, swipe, lay one on
1. 1.1bash something in Damage or break something by striking it violently.
  the car's rear window had been bashed in
  Example sentencesExamples
  There was a police car on the flower bed, and its head was bashed in with the word ‘Police’ dented.
  My pa got mad at me one night and beat me so hard he bashed my skull in.
  When I saw him at the trial, and I knew what he'd done, I was so close to bashing his face in.
  Harrison picks up a large rock nearby and bashes the knob in, forcing the door open.
  ‘Huh! ‘snorted Lou, ‘I can see where the kid gets it from - and yeah - then maybe you can tell us who bashed your face in.’
  I hear him saying, ‘I'm going to bash your head in!’
  The one with the broken nose looked at him bravely and stated, ‘She was too fast… I was able to catch up to her, but she bashed my nose in.’
  A parent has threatened to bash my face in for giving his daughter lines; I need a day at the police station as the ministry can do nothing.
  Jimmy's bashing my head in with a two-by-four!
  Presumably, if you begin to bash my skull in, I wouldn't be out of my moral depth to send a shattering kick to your shins and, say, ruffle your hair up a bit.
  But on the few occasions when I've had the privilege of being out in the field with him, I try to bash his head in because we're competitive.
  Funny how it works.'… I kept thinking about these cops, and how they may be nice individuals at home, but if they got the order they would bash my skull in.… I started rationalizing with myself.
  Colton and Devon would've been home by then so I thought it odd that the roof wasn't collapsing, the walls weren't bashed in, and there weren't any bloody murder messages on the answering machine.
  Neighborhood vandals and our own children bashed our windows in with rocks.
  In my early days of settlement, Arthur did just that, bashing weak palings in with his head, the better to check there were no cats in the great beyond.
  ‘DON'T TELL ME WHAT I SAID’ she howled and chased him around the streets for an hour trying to bash his head in.
  Groaning, he struggled to lift his head until Syona clutched his throat with one hand and bashed his nose in with another.
  At home, Janelle tells Dylan that he has ‘better street smarts than Mike’ so next time he'll be able to bash his head in.
  Haz pushed himself up into a sitting position only to have Priest grab him and throw him against the elevator doors almost bashing them in.
  We (my coach, two friends and I) thoroughly bashed his head in, and no, we're still alive and well.
2. 1.2bash intono object Collide with.
  the other vehicle bashed into the back of them
  Example sentencesExamples
  Anyway, I was walking along a mall when a woman suddenly swung around and bashed into me.
  The bulls bash into doors or the sides of buildings, sustaining bruises, cuts and broken bones and horns.
  I stopped and helped him up, although a dozen men bashed into me from behind.
  The wind has picked up even more and is bashing into the side of my mobile home.
  Everyone, apparently, is getting fed up with mums in their Chelsea tractors, taking up too much space and generally bashing into everything.
  Yet there's something even more exhilarating about the fact that the men bashing into each other on the court are normal people with essentially normal lives.
  And I'm up here watching my TV get bashed into the floor.
  The speedboat bounced along sending a cascade of waves crashing through the calmness and bashing into the smooth green walls of buildings that rose tall and defiant from the canal's glassy depths.
  The suspension gets a bit of a hammering and there's always a danger of a truck or something bashing into you.
  Moving the jeep results in it bashing into a wall of snow that comes up above the bumpers.
  Sometimes they fall off loading bays, are slammed into doors, or are bashed into walls.
  Man, it's going to take her about ten years to figure out where everything is, she thought as she was dragged down the hallway, mumbling sorry to the students she was bashing into.
  I landed with all my weight on my left shoulder and upper arm, which was bashed into the ribs over my heart.
  I jumped once more, letting out a yelp as my knee bashed into the table and I went crashing to the floor.
  As a handful of bystanders stood by, the plows methodically bashed into the landmark's walls until a heap of black concrete filled Seventh Street.
  Dylan runs past the guy, bashing into him, and manages to nick the guy's wallet.
  I asked, just as I though would happen, something came bashing into my head; knocking me over, chair and all.
  In the middle of the night, the boats started bashing into each other.
  And they'll bash into you like an unstoppable force meeting an all too movable object.
  But he chased after me and my clothes got torn, and we were barely out of his father's car when this truck came out of nowhere and bashed into it and knocked it over the hill.
  Synonyms
  collide with, hit, crash into, run into, bang into, smash into, knock into, bump into, meet head-on
3. 1.3 Fiercely criticize or oppose.
  the dispute will be used as an excuse to bash the unions
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yet even knee deep in slush, Kelly soldiers on, bashing errant boyfriends, railing against the media machine and tapping an expansive geyser of teenage venom.
  For the past ten minutes of lunch, he'd been indiscriminately bashing anything worth insulting, and he'd made even the more conservative among us laugh.
  I for one, am hoping to see better posts, less attacks and bashing and more concerns for the topic matter.
  The source said Mr Mandelson had been referring to Mr Chirac when he criticised the tactic of ‘constantly bashing Brussels’.
  Just as academe got bashed for appropriating jazz, this show will face criticism for its heady approach.
  Critics also bashed the law for limiting access to information and privacy.
  There's nothing the London theatre critics like more than to bash Edinburgh's hyped-up hits once they reach the southern capital.
  This success has caused Sun to put more and more emphasis on services - a strategy it had typically shied away from, preferring to bash IBM's services attack instead.
  I expect I'll see his writings on the topic about the same time that he links to one of the critics who have disagreed with his posts bashing Kass and the Council.
  She babbled on and on about ‘liberals’ who spend all their time bashing the right and slandering the right and spouting lies about the right.
  So Peter Beinart is the New Republic editor who is getting beat on by Michelle Malkin for remarks he made bashing a bunch of talk radio guys going to Iraq.
  If Metallica's Lars Ulrich paused from bashing Napster to cogently denounce the Iraq war - as Wino has capably done - we would revise our opinion of the man.
  A mysterious Internet Web site suddenly appeared, replete with altered newspaper headlines bashing Gardner and other union critics who were running for the board.
  Although not a lawyer himself, he's made a remarkable career out of bashing the profession.
  Wendy was busy inventing new insults with which to bash Nats.
  Critics who bash such films as Happy Times as being heavy-handed misinterpret the key differences between Eastern and Western cinema.
  At the same time, Bush's remarks were bashed by scientists and advocates for the separation of church and state.
  U.S. efforts to bash Beijing reveal a remarkable ignorance about economics.
  The critics who bash Harrington the most tend to overlook the problems Detroit has had with its passing game since his arrival.
  Synonyms
  vilify, disparage, denigrate, defame, run down, impugn, revile, berate, belittle, abuse, insult, slight, attack, speak badly of, speak ill of, speak evil of, pour scorn on, criticize, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, pillory, lambaste

noun baʃbæʃ

informal

1A heavy blow.
a bash on the head
Example sentencesExamples
- His reward was a bash in the head with the butt of a gun.
- The oaf wouldn't know the difference between a crotchet, a quaver, and a bash in the chops with a bassoon.
- Her head hit the pavement with a muffled bash, and she was knocked unconscious.
Synonyms
blow, rap, hit, knock, bang, slap, crack, thump, tap, clip
informal clout, whack, wallop
2A party or social event.
a birthday bash
Example sentencesExamples
- As well as great music and dance the birthday bash will feature a yummy supper, raffles, lucky door prizes and other activities.
- Green, who chartered a plane for all 200 guests, is no stranger to hiring top stars to perform at his bashes.
- Of course in my case I only let some party people know that a couple of us were having a pre party party before the main bash.
- But doesn't opening up the Lord Mayor's official residence for corporate bashes smack slightly of commercialism?
- Last-minute vacations, end-of-season backyard bashes and back-to-school prep time are keeping you mighty busy.
- This bash is being held this weekend as it is close to the 20th anniversary of the football team's first ‘European tour’ to Lloret De Mar in Spain.
- Matty Graham's New Year's Eve was ruined after he was dealt a sucker punch during a beer-fuelled bash.
- While a certain level of high spirits is expected at these bashes, it is considered bad form to become overly tired and emotional.
- He has done it all, from corporate bashes to wild parties and from product launches to music shows.
- Her family and friends, along with staff at St. Joseph's, had a right old party bash celebrating the occasion.
- Glenn, 58, whose 18-year-old daughter wants to act, also says she felt uncomfortable attending star-studded bashes like the Oscars because of the pressure to look good.
- The ‘American Pie’ beauty - who is frequently snapped at star-studded bashes - claims she prefers spending time with people outside the movie industry.
- A grand bash to celebrate his birthday was held in a posh hotel only five days earlier.
- New York Social Diary is your link to the parties, events, openings, launches, shindigs, bashes, and general social whirlwind that is the East Coast social scene.
- The party in 2001 was not held due to a committee restructure, and is the only year in the last 17 years that Tropical Fruits have not held their annual bash.
- All the food I made for her bash was Californian and I tried to create a layered ‘California Roll Salad’ with fresh crab meat, avocado and seaweed.
- The event was a birthday bash for KIK Corp. supremo and new Toronto Argonauts owner David Cynamon, who chartered the Air Canada jet.
- Two well known locals last week celebrated with a birthday bash.
- ShowBiz Ireland would like to wish Ray a Happy 30th and thank all of you who attended and help make the party the bash of the year…
- My birthday party was a joint bash with a good friend from College, the English Civil War Historian.
Synonyms
party, gathering, social gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social
3British in singular An attempt.
have a bash at this quiz
Example sentencesExamples
- And the Treasurer wasn't to be left out, he too wanted to have a bash at Mark Latham.
- Think I'll have a bash at some more of those in the coming weeks.
- It's still on my to-do list, though I suspect that I might have a bash at the guitar next.
- There was a time when the O-list was so long and preposterous that virtually anyone could have a bash at winning Olympic gold.
- If he hadn't said to me on Thursday ‘Gaffer I'll give it a bash!’
- On a bright and breezy Sunday five Ilkley Harriers made the trip over to have a bash at the nine miles, 2,000 ft Half Tour of Pendle Fell Race.
- You live and learn about these things and I would probably have a better bash at it second time around.
- Top be honest I was a little bit tired, I suppose every one of us on the Great Britain team was, but we were all ready to give it a bash again.
- Ok, that's me done - if you want a bash then leave me a comment saying ‘interview me’ and I'll spend a good few hours thinking up suitable questions for you.
- So do have a bash at it, even if you're not 100% confident of your answers.
- I'd like to have a bash at playing Gustav von Aschenbach in Death In Venice, please.
- Children will get the opportunity to have a bash at a range of activities to learn how to stay safe when cycling.
- Their amazing efforts started in June 2004 when the group decided to have a bash at breaking the record £10,000 previously raised by doing so.
- If I'm selected and get the job, I'll probably have a bash at it but I'm not putting my hand up.
Synonyms
effort, endeavour, try, bid, venture, trial, experiment
attempt, try, effort, endeavour, bid, venture, trial, experiment

Phrasal Verbs

bash something out

Produce something rapidly without preparation or attention to detail.
I didn't just want to bash out songs
Example sentencesExamples
- However its a good idea to bash them out yourself, it allows you to experiment quickly and cheaply, testing out different versions of how a scene may look and play on camera.
- I used to bash them out on a manual typewriter, photocopy them and distribute.
- Then again, it's just as great to be The Rolling Stones and go into a room and bash it out.
- As far as melodies and lyrics are concerned, I think Andy was happy for me to bash things out and then give an opinion or advice on how things might progress, which was important.
- No time wasted with string sections or French-horn charts here - once Roberts has the song in his head, he just wants to bash it out.

bash on (or away)

Continue despite difficulties.
nothing much we can do, except bash on
Example sentencesExamples
- Still, after a day slaving away at a hot computer terminal, I vowed to go home and bash away on at least one design tonight.
- After a few hours bashing away at it, I'm utterly addicted.
- Fortunately for the world, Clive Holden bashes on regardless.
- That's a bit insulting to those of us bashing away for the consumer week in, week out.
- I had to have it, so I just bashed away and worked in bookstores to keep the wolf from the door.
- He is on the touchline as Guy's Hospital, the oldest club in the world, bash on in their beleaguered but indomitable way.
- Miranda's battler is bashing away at a ‘boring but worthy’ thesis on some aspect of superannuation.
- Paulo Costanzo is welcome and again bashes away excellently at the banter.
- This is one of those peaks that is destined to be left for another day - it looks far out on its rocky limb and the temptation is to ignore it and bash on to Glas Bheinn Mhor.
- What about bands that don't even advertise. There could be some great unsigned band just bashing away in some pub somewhere in London tonight.
- IN THE MONTHS after our trip, Russell bashed on undeterred.
- I marveled at college students who kept bashing away with musings about anything under the sun.
Synonyms
persevere, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, plough on, stay with something, not take no for an answer

Origin

Mid 17th century (as a verb): imitative, perhaps a blend of bang¹ and smash, dash, etc..

Rhymes

abash, ash, Ashe, brash, cache, calash, cash, clash, crash, dash, encash, flash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, Nash, panache, pash, plash, rash, sash, slash, smash, soutache, splash, stash, thrash, trash

Definition of bash in US English:

bash

verbbaSHbæʃ

[with object]informal

1Strike hard and violently.
bash a mosquito with a newspaper
Example sentencesExamples
- Hard drives don't like being bashed around in bags or boots of cars, so be very careful with this baby.
- I had forgot how much fun bashing the drums really hard is.
- I slammed it again, much harder, and suddenly I'm bashing my wrist against the corner of the wall with all my strength, quickly and repeatedly.
- Hex slowly emerged from his car and had apparently bashed his head hard against the steering wheel, for his head was bleeding.
- Tasson bashed Shein's head with his fist, hard enough that Shein fell over unconscious.
- The sudden lurch of the car caused Kirsten to fly forward violently in her seat, bashing her leg off the dashboard.
- At the moment the keys on the piano are bashed rather hard.
- The men we've interviewed from Bexley say they were beaten and bashed by officers in the home, do you accept that this did take place?
- On the other hand, if the pegs turn out to be a bit too square and the holes too round, then the harder you try to bash the one into the other, the more you'll end up just making a mess.
- Even from across the busy road, I could see that each convulsion jerked his body, stretched out dangerously in the traffic, and caused his head to bash against the hard tarmac, grazing it.
- A chunk of carrot fell onto the Locum's head as, raising it in the air, I brought it down as hard as I could and bashed the toy to pieces.
- Keep your eye on these hooks: sometimes even their incredibly sharp points can bend over when the current bashes them against hard rocks.
- When I came to I saw that I had bashed the guy pretty hard, at one glance I could see that I had broken his jaw.
- While he was preoccupied, I took the rocks out of my pocket, one in each hand, and bashed them on each side of his head as hard as I could.
- She screamed at the top of her lungs and bashed her head into the pillar as hard as she could.
- ‘Well, you did scream it at him as you attempted to throttle him while bashing his head into hard concrete,’ Jay told me, grinning.
- So perhaps we should bash them, but just not too hard.
- I never got bashed about there like I do down here.
- Pretty sad, in a way, because like most frustrated men - it was quite common - he used to beat her, bash her, right?
- He grinned as he wrapped his arms around her - that stopped mid-way when he felt a hard broom bashed at the back of his head.
Synonyms
strike, hit, beat, thump, slap, smack, batter, pound, pummel, thrash, rap, buffet, hammer, bang, knock
1. 1.1bash something in Damage or break something by striking it violently.
  the car's rear window had been bashed in
  Example sentencesExamples
  I hear him saying, ‘I'm going to bash your head in!’
  ‘DON'T TELL ME WHAT I SAID’ she howled and chased him around the streets for an hour trying to bash his head in.
  The one with the broken nose looked at him bravely and stated, ‘She was too fast… I was able to catch up to her, but she bashed my nose in.’
  In my early days of settlement, Arthur did just that, bashing weak palings in with his head, the better to check there were no cats in the great beyond.
  Groaning, he struggled to lift his head until Syona clutched his throat with one hand and bashed his nose in with another.
  Haz pushed himself up into a sitting position only to have Priest grab him and throw him against the elevator doors almost bashing them in.
  ‘Huh! ‘snorted Lou, ‘I can see where the kid gets it from - and yeah - then maybe you can tell us who bashed your face in.’
  A parent has threatened to bash my face in for giving his daughter lines; I need a day at the police station as the ministry can do nothing.
  Jimmy's bashing my head in with a two-by-four!
  Presumably, if you begin to bash my skull in, I wouldn't be out of my moral depth to send a shattering kick to your shins and, say, ruffle your hair up a bit.
  Harrison picks up a large rock nearby and bashes the knob in, forcing the door open.
  There was a police car on the flower bed, and its head was bashed in with the word ‘Police’ dented.
  At home, Janelle tells Dylan that he has ‘better street smarts than Mike’ so next time he'll be able to bash his head in.
  Funny how it works.'… I kept thinking about these cops, and how they may be nice individuals at home, but if they got the order they would bash my skull in.… I started rationalizing with myself.
  But on the few occasions when I've had the privilege of being out in the field with him, I try to bash his head in because we're competitive.
  Colton and Devon would've been home by then so I thought it odd that the roof wasn't collapsing, the walls weren't bashed in, and there weren't any bloody murder messages on the answering machine.
  My pa got mad at me one night and beat me so hard he bashed my skull in.
  When I saw him at the trial, and I knew what he'd done, I was so close to bashing his face in.
  Neighborhood vandals and our own children bashed our windows in with rocks.
  We (my coach, two friends and I) thoroughly bashed his head in, and no, we're still alive and well.
2. 1.2bash intono object Collide with.
  the other vehicle bashed into the back of them
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sometimes they fall off loading bays, are slammed into doors, or are bashed into walls.
  I asked, just as I though would happen, something came bashing into my head; knocking me over, chair and all.
  Moving the jeep results in it bashing into a wall of snow that comes up above the bumpers.
  I stopped and helped him up, although a dozen men bashed into me from behind.
  Yet there's something even more exhilarating about the fact that the men bashing into each other on the court are normal people with essentially normal lives.
  I landed with all my weight on my left shoulder and upper arm, which was bashed into the ribs over my heart.
  And they'll bash into you like an unstoppable force meeting an all too movable object.
  The wind has picked up even more and is bashing into the side of my mobile home.
  In the middle of the night, the boats started bashing into each other.
  And I'm up here watching my TV get bashed into the floor.
  Dylan runs past the guy, bashing into him, and manages to nick the guy's wallet.
  But he chased after me and my clothes got torn, and we were barely out of his father's car when this truck came out of nowhere and bashed into it and knocked it over the hill.
  Anyway, I was walking along a mall when a woman suddenly swung around and bashed into me.
  Man, it's going to take her about ten years to figure out where everything is, she thought as she was dragged down the hallway, mumbling sorry to the students she was bashing into.
  As a handful of bystanders stood by, the plows methodically bashed into the landmark's walls until a heap of black concrete filled Seventh Street.
  I jumped once more, letting out a yelp as my knee bashed into the table and I went crashing to the floor.
  Everyone, apparently, is getting fed up with mums in their Chelsea tractors, taking up too much space and generally bashing into everything.
  The suspension gets a bit of a hammering and there's always a danger of a truck or something bashing into you.
  The bulls bash into doors or the sides of buildings, sustaining bruises, cuts and broken bones and horns.
  The speedboat bounced along sending a cascade of waves crashing through the calmness and bashing into the smooth green walls of buildings that rose tall and defiant from the canal's glassy depths.
  Synonyms
  collide with, hit, crash into, run into, bang into, smash into, knock into, bump into, meet head-on
3. 1.3 Criticize severely.
  a remark bashing the Belgian brewing industry
  Example sentencesExamples
  I for one, am hoping to see better posts, less attacks and bashing and more concerns for the topic matter.
  If Metallica's Lars Ulrich paused from bashing Napster to cogently denounce the Iraq war - as Wino has capably done - we would revise our opinion of the man.
  Although not a lawyer himself, he's made a remarkable career out of bashing the profession.
  For the past ten minutes of lunch, he'd been indiscriminately bashing anything worth insulting, and he'd made even the more conservative among us laugh.
  This success has caused Sun to put more and more emphasis on services - a strategy it had typically shied away from, preferring to bash IBM's services attack instead.
  Critics also bashed the law for limiting access to information and privacy.
  At the same time, Bush's remarks were bashed by scientists and advocates for the separation of church and state.
  A mysterious Internet Web site suddenly appeared, replete with altered newspaper headlines bashing Gardner and other union critics who were running for the board.
  I expect I'll see his writings on the topic about the same time that he links to one of the critics who have disagreed with his posts bashing Kass and the Council.
  Wendy was busy inventing new insults with which to bash Nats.
  U.S. efforts to bash Beijing reveal a remarkable ignorance about economics.
  So Peter Beinart is the New Republic editor who is getting beat on by Michelle Malkin for remarks he made bashing a bunch of talk radio guys going to Iraq.
  Just as academe got bashed for appropriating jazz, this show will face criticism for its heady approach.
  She babbled on and on about ‘liberals’ who spend all their time bashing the right and slandering the right and spouting lies about the right.
  There's nothing the London theatre critics like more than to bash Edinburgh's hyped-up hits once they reach the southern capital.
  Critics who bash such films as Happy Times as being heavy-handed misinterpret the key differences between Eastern and Western cinema.
  The source said Mr Mandelson had been referring to Mr Chirac when he criticised the tactic of ‘constantly bashing Brussels’.
  The critics who bash Harrington the most tend to overlook the problems Detroit has had with its passing game since his arrival.
  Yet even knee deep in slush, Kelly soldiers on, bashing errant boyfriends, railing against the media machine and tapping an expansive geyser of teenage venom.
  Synonyms
  vilify, disparage, denigrate, defame, run down, impugn, revile, berate, belittle, abuse, insult, slight, attack, speak badly of, speak ill of, speak evil of, pour scorn on, criticize, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, pillory, lambaste

nounbaSHbæʃ

informal

1A heavy blow.
a bash on the head
Example sentencesExamples
- Her head hit the pavement with a muffled bash, and she was knocked unconscious.
- His reward was a bash in the head with the butt of a gun.
- The oaf wouldn't know the difference between a crotchet, a quaver, and a bash in the chops with a bassoon.
Synonyms
blow, rap, hit, knock, bang, slap, crack, thump, tap, clip
2A party or social event.
a birthday bash
Example sentencesExamples
- The event was a birthday bash for KIK Corp. supremo and new Toronto Argonauts owner David Cynamon, who chartered the Air Canada jet.
- Matty Graham's New Year's Eve was ruined after he was dealt a sucker punch during a beer-fuelled bash.
- New York Social Diary is your link to the parties, events, openings, launches, shindigs, bashes, and general social whirlwind that is the East Coast social scene.
- ShowBiz Ireland would like to wish Ray a Happy 30th and thank all of you who attended and help make the party the bash of the year…
- Glenn, 58, whose 18-year-old daughter wants to act, also says she felt uncomfortable attending star-studded bashes like the Oscars because of the pressure to look good.
- Last-minute vacations, end-of-season backyard bashes and back-to-school prep time are keeping you mighty busy.
- As well as great music and dance the birthday bash will feature a yummy supper, raffles, lucky door prizes and other activities.
- A grand bash to celebrate his birthday was held in a posh hotel only five days earlier.
- All the food I made for her bash was Californian and I tried to create a layered ‘California Roll Salad’ with fresh crab meat, avocado and seaweed.
- Of course in my case I only let some party people know that a couple of us were having a pre party party before the main bash.
- This bash is being held this weekend as it is close to the 20th anniversary of the football team's first ‘European tour’ to Lloret De Mar in Spain.
- My birthday party was a joint bash with a good friend from College, the English Civil War Historian.
- Green, who chartered a plane for all 200 guests, is no stranger to hiring top stars to perform at his bashes.
- While a certain level of high spirits is expected at these bashes, it is considered bad form to become overly tired and emotional.
- Two well known locals last week celebrated with a birthday bash.
- He has done it all, from corporate bashes to wild parties and from product launches to music shows.
- The ‘American Pie’ beauty - who is frequently snapped at star-studded bashes - claims she prefers spending time with people outside the movie industry.
- The party in 2001 was not held due to a committee restructure, and is the only year in the last 17 years that Tropical Fruits have not held their annual bash.
- Her family and friends, along with staff at St. Joseph's, had a right old party bash celebrating the occasion.
- But doesn't opening up the Lord Mayor's official residence for corporate bashes smack slightly of commercialism?
Synonyms
party, gathering, social gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social

Phrasal Verbs

bash something out

Produce something rapidly without preparation or attention to detail.
Example sentencesExamples
- No time wasted with string sections or French-horn charts here - once Roberts has the song in his head, he just wants to bash it out.
- Then again, it's just as great to be The Rolling Stones and go into a room and bash it out.
- As far as melodies and lyrics are concerned, I think Andy was happy for me to bash things out and then give an opinion or advice on how things might progress, which was important.
- I used to bash them out on a manual typewriter, photocopy them and distribute.
- However its a good idea to bash them out yourself, it allows you to experiment quickly and cheaply, testing out different versions of how a scene may look and play on camera.

Origin

Mid 17th century (as a verb): imitative, perhaps a blend of bang and smash, dash, etc..

单词	bash
释义	Definition of bash in English: bash verb baʃbæʃ [with object]informal 1Strike hard and violently. she bashed him with the book no object people bashed on the doors Example sentencesExamples I never got bashed about there like I do down here. He grinned as he wrapped his arms around her - that stopped mid-way when he felt a hard broom bashed at the back of his head. Even from across the busy road, I could see that each convulsion jerked his body, stretched out dangerously in the traffic, and caused his head to bash against the hard tarmac, grazing it. A chunk of carrot fell onto the Locum's head as, raising it in the air, I brought it down as hard as I could and bashed the toy to pieces. On the other hand, if the pegs turn out to be a bit too square and the holes too round, then the harder you try to bash the one into the other, the more you'll end up just making a mess. Pretty sad, in a way, because like most frustrated men - it was quite common - he used to beat her, bash her, right? The men we've interviewed from Bexley say they were beaten and bashed by officers in the home, do you accept that this did take place? Keep your eye on these hooks: sometimes even their incredibly sharp points can bend over when the current bashes them against hard rocks. While he was preoccupied, I took the rocks out of my pocket, one in each hand, and bashed them on each side of his head as hard as I could. At the moment the keys on the piano are bashed rather hard. Tasson bashed Shein's head with his fist, hard enough that Shein fell over unconscious. I had forgot how much fun bashing the drums really hard is. I slammed it again, much harder, and suddenly I'm bashing my wrist against the corner of the wall with all my strength, quickly and repeatedly. The sudden lurch of the car caused Kirsten to fly forward violently in her seat, bashing her leg off the dashboard. When I came to I saw that I had bashed the guy pretty hard, at one glance I could see that I had broken his jaw. Hard drives don't like being bashed around in bags or boots of cars, so be very careful with this baby. Hex slowly emerged from his car and had apparently bashed his head hard against the steering wheel, for his head was bleeding. She screamed at the top of her lungs and bashed her head into the pillar as hard as she could. So perhaps we should bash them, but just not too hard. ‘Well, you did scream it at him as you attempted to throttle him while bashing his head into hard concrete,’ Jay told me, grinning. Synonyms strike, hit, beat, thump, slap, smack, batter, pound, pummel, thrash, rap, buffet, hammer, bang, knock informal wallop, belt, whack, clout, clip, clobber, bop, biff, sock, deck, swipe, lay one on 1.1bash something in Damage or break something by striking it violently. the car's rear window had been bashed in Example sentencesExamples There was a police car on the flower bed, and its head was bashed in with the word ‘Police’ dented. My pa got mad at me one night and beat me so hard he bashed my skull in. When I saw him at the trial, and I knew what he'd done, I was so close to bashing his face in. Harrison picks up a large rock nearby and bashes the knob in, forcing the door open. ‘Huh! ‘snorted Lou, ‘I can see where the kid gets it from - and yeah - then maybe you can tell us who bashed your face in.’ I hear him saying, ‘I'm going to bash your head in!’ The one with the broken nose looked at him bravely and stated, ‘She was too fast… I was able to catch up to her, but she bashed my nose in.’ A parent has threatened to bash my face in for giving his daughter lines; I need a day at the police station as the ministry can do nothing. Jimmy's bashing my head in with a two-by-four! Presumably, if you begin to bash my skull in, I wouldn't be out of my moral depth to send a shattering kick to your shins and, say, ruffle your hair up a bit. But on the few occasions when I've had the privilege of being out in the field with him, I try to bash his head in because we're competitive. Funny how it works.'… I kept thinking about these cops, and how they may be nice individuals at home, but if they got the order they would bash my skull in.… I started rationalizing with myself. Colton and Devon would've been home by then so I thought it odd that the roof wasn't collapsing, the walls weren't bashed in, and there weren't any bloody murder messages on the answering machine. Neighborhood vandals and our own children bashed our windows in with rocks. In my early days of settlement, Arthur did just that, bashing weak palings in with his head, the better to check there were no cats in the great beyond. ‘DON'T TELL ME WHAT I SAID’ she howled and chased him around the streets for an hour trying to bash his head in. Groaning, he struggled to lift his head until Syona clutched his throat with one hand and bashed his nose in with another. At home, Janelle tells Dylan that he has ‘better street smarts than Mike’ so next time he'll be able to bash his head in. Haz pushed himself up into a sitting position only to have Priest grab him and throw him against the elevator doors almost bashing them in. We (my coach, two friends and I) thoroughly bashed his head in, and no, we're still alive and well. 1.2bash intono object Collide with. the other vehicle bashed into the back of them Example sentencesExamples Anyway, I was walking along a mall when a woman suddenly swung around and bashed into me. The bulls bash into doors or the sides of buildings, sustaining bruises, cuts and broken bones and horns. I stopped and helped him up, although a dozen men bashed into me from behind. The wind has picked up even more and is bashing into the side of my mobile home. Everyone, apparently, is getting fed up with mums in their Chelsea tractors, taking up too much space and generally bashing into everything. Yet there's something even more exhilarating about the fact that the men bashing into each other on the court are normal people with essentially normal lives. And I'm up here watching my TV get bashed into the floor. The speedboat bounced along sending a cascade of waves crashing through the calmness and bashing into the smooth green walls of buildings that rose tall and defiant from the canal's glassy depths. The suspension gets a bit of a hammering and there's always a danger of a truck or something bashing into you. Moving the jeep results in it bashing into a wall of snow that comes up above the bumpers. Sometimes they fall off loading bays, are slammed into doors, or are bashed into walls. Man, it's going to take her about ten years to figure out where everything is, she thought as she was dragged down the hallway, mumbling sorry to the students she was bashing into. I landed with all my weight on my left shoulder and upper arm, which was bashed into the ribs over my heart. I jumped once more, letting out a yelp as my knee bashed into the table and I went crashing to the floor. As a handful of bystanders stood by, the plows methodically bashed into the landmark's walls until a heap of black concrete filled Seventh Street. Dylan runs past the guy, bashing into him, and manages to nick the guy's wallet. I asked, just as I though would happen, something came bashing into my head; knocking me over, chair and all. In the middle of the night, the boats started bashing into each other. And they'll bash into you like an unstoppable force meeting an all too movable object. But he chased after me and my clothes got torn, and we were barely out of his father's car when this truck came out of nowhere and bashed into it and knocked it over the hill. Synonyms collide with, hit, crash into, run into, bang into, smash into, knock into, bump into, meet head-on 1.3 Fiercely criticize or oppose. the dispute will be used as an excuse to bash the unions Example sentencesExamples Yet even knee deep in slush, Kelly soldiers on, bashing errant boyfriends, railing against the media machine and tapping an expansive geyser of teenage venom. For the past ten minutes of lunch, he'd been indiscriminately bashing anything worth insulting, and he'd made even the more conservative among us laugh. I for one, am hoping to see better posts, less attacks and bashing and more concerns for the topic matter. The source said Mr Mandelson had been referring to Mr Chirac when he criticised the tactic of ‘constantly bashing Brussels’. Just as academe got bashed for appropriating jazz, this show will face criticism for its heady approach. Critics also bashed the law for limiting access to information and privacy. There's nothing the London theatre critics like more than to bash Edinburgh's hyped-up hits once they reach the southern capital. This success has caused Sun to put more and more emphasis on services - a strategy it had typically shied away from, preferring to bash IBM's services attack instead. I expect I'll see his writings on the topic about the same time that he links to one of the critics who have disagreed with his posts bashing Kass and the Council. She babbled on and on about ‘liberals’ who spend all their time bashing the right and slandering the right and spouting lies about the right. So Peter Beinart is the New Republic editor who is getting beat on by Michelle Malkin for remarks he made bashing a bunch of talk radio guys going to Iraq. If Metallica's Lars Ulrich paused from bashing Napster to cogently denounce the Iraq war - as Wino has capably done - we would revise our opinion of the man. A mysterious Internet Web site suddenly appeared, replete with altered newspaper headlines bashing Gardner and other union critics who were running for the board. Although not a lawyer himself, he's made a remarkable career out of bashing the profession. Wendy was busy inventing new insults with which to bash Nats. Critics who bash such films as Happy Times as being heavy-handed misinterpret the key differences between Eastern and Western cinema. At the same time, Bush's remarks were bashed by scientists and advocates for the separation of church and state. U.S. efforts to bash Beijing reveal a remarkable ignorance about economics. The critics who bash Harrington the most tend to overlook the problems Detroit has had with its passing game since his arrival. Synonyms vilify, disparage, denigrate, defame, run down, impugn, revile, berate, belittle, abuse, insult, slight, attack, speak badly of, speak ill of, speak evil of, pour scorn on, criticize, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, pillory, lambaste noun baʃbæʃ informal 1A heavy blow. a bash on the head Example sentencesExamples His reward was a bash in the head with the butt of a gun. The oaf wouldn't know the difference between a crotchet, a quaver, and a bash in the chops with a bassoon. Her head hit the pavement with a muffled bash, and she was knocked unconscious. Synonyms blow, rap, hit, knock, bang, slap, crack, thump, tap, clip informal clout, whack, wallop 2A party or social event. a birthday bash Example sentencesExamples As well as great music and dance the birthday bash will feature a yummy supper, raffles, lucky door prizes and other activities. Green, who chartered a plane for all 200 guests, is no stranger to hiring top stars to perform at his bashes. Of course in my case I only let some party people know that a couple of us were having a pre party party before the main bash. But doesn't opening up the Lord Mayor's official residence for corporate bashes smack slightly of commercialism? Last-minute vacations, end-of-season backyard bashes and back-to-school prep time are keeping you mighty busy. This bash is being held this weekend as it is close to the 20th anniversary of the football team's first ‘European tour’ to Lloret De Mar in Spain. Matty Graham's New Year's Eve was ruined after he was dealt a sucker punch during a beer-fuelled bash. While a certain level of high spirits is expected at these bashes, it is considered bad form to become overly tired and emotional. He has done it all, from corporate bashes to wild parties and from product launches to music shows. Her family and friends, along with staff at St. Joseph's, had a right old party bash celebrating the occasion. Glenn, 58, whose 18-year-old daughter wants to act, also says she felt uncomfortable attending star-studded bashes like the Oscars because of the pressure to look good. The ‘American Pie’ beauty - who is frequently snapped at star-studded bashes - claims she prefers spending time with people outside the movie industry. A grand bash to celebrate his birthday was held in a posh hotel only five days earlier. New York Social Diary is your link to the parties, events, openings, launches, shindigs, bashes, and general social whirlwind that is the East Coast social scene. The party in 2001 was not held due to a committee restructure, and is the only year in the last 17 years that Tropical Fruits have not held their annual bash. All the food I made for her bash was Californian and I tried to create a layered ‘California Roll Salad’ with fresh crab meat, avocado and seaweed. The event was a birthday bash for KIK Corp. supremo and new Toronto Argonauts owner David Cynamon, who chartered the Air Canada jet. Two well known locals last week celebrated with a birthday bash. ShowBiz Ireland would like to wish Ray a Happy 30th and thank all of you who attended and help make the party the bash of the year… My birthday party was a joint bash with a good friend from College, the English Civil War Historian. Synonyms party, gathering, social gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social 3British in singular An attempt. have a bash at this quiz Example sentencesExamples And the Treasurer wasn't to be left out, he too wanted to have a bash at Mark Latham. Think I'll have a bash at some more of those in the coming weeks. It's still on my to-do list, though I suspect that I might have a bash at the guitar next. There was a time when the O-list was so long and preposterous that virtually anyone could have a bash at winning Olympic gold. If he hadn't said to me on Thursday ‘Gaffer I'll give it a bash!’ On a bright and breezy Sunday five Ilkley Harriers made the trip over to have a bash at the nine miles, 2,000 ft Half Tour of Pendle Fell Race. You live and learn about these things and I would probably have a better bash at it second time around. Top be honest I was a little bit tired, I suppose every one of us on the Great Britain team was, but we were all ready to give it a bash again. Ok, that's me done - if you want a bash then leave me a comment saying ‘interview me’ and I'll spend a good few hours thinking up suitable questions for you. So do have a bash at it, even if you're not 100% confident of your answers. I'd like to have a bash at playing Gustav von Aschenbach in Death In Venice, please. Children will get the opportunity to have a bash at a range of activities to learn how to stay safe when cycling. Their amazing efforts started in June 2004 when the group decided to have a bash at breaking the record £10,000 previously raised by doing so. If I'm selected and get the job, I'll probably have a bash at it but I'm not putting my hand up. Synonyms effort, endeavour, try, bid, venture, trial, experiment attempt, try, effort, endeavour, bid, venture, trial, experiment Phrasal Verbs bash something out Produce something rapidly without preparation or attention to detail. I didn't just want to bash out songs Example sentencesExamples However its a good idea to bash them out yourself, it allows you to experiment quickly and cheaply, testing out different versions of how a scene may look and play on camera. I used to bash them out on a manual typewriter, photocopy them and distribute. Then again, it's just as great to be The Rolling Stones and go into a room and bash it out. As far as melodies and lyrics are concerned, I think Andy was happy for me to bash things out and then give an opinion or advice on how things might progress, which was important. No time wasted with string sections or French-horn charts here - once Roberts has the song in his head, he just wants to bash it out. bash on (or away) Continue despite difficulties. nothing much we can do, except bash on Example sentencesExamples Still, after a day slaving away at a hot computer terminal, I vowed to go home and bash away on at least one design tonight. After a few hours bashing away at it, I'm utterly addicted. Fortunately for the world, Clive Holden bashes on regardless. That's a bit insulting to those of us bashing away for the consumer week in, week out. I had to have it, so I just bashed away and worked in bookstores to keep the wolf from the door. He is on the touchline as Guy's Hospital, the oldest club in the world, bash on in their beleaguered but indomitable way. Miranda's battler is bashing away at a ‘boring but worthy’ thesis on some aspect of superannuation. Paulo Costanzo is welcome and again bashes away excellently at the banter. This is one of those peaks that is destined to be left for another day - it looks far out on its rocky limb and the temptation is to ignore it and bash on to Glas Bheinn Mhor. What about bands that don't even advertise. There could be some great unsigned band just bashing away in some pub somewhere in London tonight. IN THE MONTHS after our trip, Russell bashed on undeterred. I marveled at college students who kept bashing away with musings about anything under the sun. Synonyms persevere, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, plough on, stay with something, not take no for an answer Origin Mid 17th century (as a verb): imitative, perhaps a blend of bang¹ and smash, dash, etc.. Rhymes abash, ash, Ashe, brash, cache, calash, cash, clash, crash, dash, encash, flash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, Nash, panache, pash, plash, rash, sash, slash, smash, soutache, splash, stash, thrash, trash verb.1 phr.v. Definition of bash in US English: bash verbbaSHbæʃ [with object]informal 1Strike hard and violently. bash a mosquito with a newspaper Example sentencesExamples Hard drives don't like being bashed around in bags or boots of cars, so be very careful with this baby. I had forgot how much fun bashing the drums really hard is. I slammed it again, much harder, and suddenly I'm bashing my wrist against the corner of the wall with all my strength, quickly and repeatedly. Hex slowly emerged from his car and had apparently bashed his head hard against the steering wheel, for his head was bleeding. Tasson bashed Shein's head with his fist, hard enough that Shein fell over unconscious. The sudden lurch of the car caused Kirsten to fly forward violently in her seat, bashing her leg off the dashboard. At the moment the keys on the piano are bashed rather hard. The men we've interviewed from Bexley say they were beaten and bashed by officers in the home, do you accept that this did take place? On the other hand, if the pegs turn out to be a bit too square and the holes too round, then the harder you try to bash the one into the other, the more you'll end up just making a mess. Even from across the busy road, I could see that each convulsion jerked his body, stretched out dangerously in the traffic, and caused his head to bash against the hard tarmac, grazing it. A chunk of carrot fell onto the Locum's head as, raising it in the air, I brought it down as hard as I could and bashed the toy to pieces. Keep your eye on these hooks: sometimes even their incredibly sharp points can bend over when the current bashes them against hard rocks. When I came to I saw that I had bashed the guy pretty hard, at one glance I could see that I had broken his jaw. While he was preoccupied, I took the rocks out of my pocket, one in each hand, and bashed them on each side of his head as hard as I could. She screamed at the top of her lungs and bashed her head into the pillar as hard as she could. ‘Well, you did scream it at him as you attempted to throttle him while bashing his head into hard concrete,’ Jay told me, grinning. So perhaps we should bash them, but just not too hard. I never got bashed about there like I do down here. Pretty sad, in a way, because like most frustrated men - it was quite common - he used to beat her, bash her, right? He grinned as he wrapped his arms around her - that stopped mid-way when he felt a hard broom bashed at the back of his head. Synonyms strike, hit, beat, thump, slap, smack, batter, pound, pummel, thrash, rap, buffet, hammer, bang, knock 1.1bash something in Damage or break something by striking it violently. the car's rear window had been bashed in Example sentencesExamples I hear him saying, ‘I'm going to bash your head in!’ ‘DON'T TELL ME WHAT I SAID’ she howled and chased him around the streets for an hour trying to bash his head in. The one with the broken nose looked at him bravely and stated, ‘She was too fast… I was able to catch up to her, but she bashed my nose in.’ In my early days of settlement, Arthur did just that, bashing weak palings in with his head, the better to check there were no cats in the great beyond. Groaning, he struggled to lift his head until Syona clutched his throat with one hand and bashed his nose in with another. Haz pushed himself up into a sitting position only to have Priest grab him and throw him against the elevator doors almost bashing them in. ‘Huh! ‘snorted Lou, ‘I can see where the kid gets it from - and yeah - then maybe you can tell us who bashed your face in.’ A parent has threatened to bash my face in for giving his daughter lines; I need a day at the police station as the ministry can do nothing. Jimmy's bashing my head in with a two-by-four! Presumably, if you begin to bash my skull in, I wouldn't be out of my moral depth to send a shattering kick to your shins and, say, ruffle your hair up a bit. Harrison picks up a large rock nearby and bashes the knob in, forcing the door open. There was a police car on the flower bed, and its head was bashed in with the word ‘Police’ dented. At home, Janelle tells Dylan that he has ‘better street smarts than Mike’ so next time he'll be able to bash his head in. Funny how it works.'… I kept thinking about these cops, and how they may be nice individuals at home, but if they got the order they would bash my skull in.… I started rationalizing with myself. But on the few occasions when I've had the privilege of being out in the field with him, I try to bash his head in because we're competitive. Colton and Devon would've been home by then so I thought it odd that the roof wasn't collapsing, the walls weren't bashed in, and there weren't any bloody murder messages on the answering machine. My pa got mad at me one night and beat me so hard he bashed my skull in. When I saw him at the trial, and I knew what he'd done, I was so close to bashing his face in. Neighborhood vandals and our own children bashed our windows in with rocks. We (my coach, two friends and I) thoroughly bashed his head in, and no, we're still alive and well. 1.2bash intono object Collide with. the other vehicle bashed into the back of them Example sentencesExamples Sometimes they fall off loading bays, are slammed into doors, or are bashed into walls. I asked, just as I though would happen, something came bashing into my head; knocking me over, chair and all. Moving the jeep results in it bashing into a wall of snow that comes up above the bumpers. I stopped and helped him up, although a dozen men bashed into me from behind. Yet there's something even more exhilarating about the fact that the men bashing into each other on the court are normal people with essentially normal lives. I landed with all my weight on my left shoulder and upper arm, which was bashed into the ribs over my heart. And they'll bash into you like an unstoppable force meeting an all too movable object. The wind has picked up even more and is bashing into the side of my mobile home. In the middle of the night, the boats started bashing into each other. And I'm up here watching my TV get bashed into the floor. Dylan runs past the guy, bashing into him, and manages to nick the guy's wallet. But he chased after me and my clothes got torn, and we were barely out of his father's car when this truck came out of nowhere and bashed into it and knocked it over the hill. Anyway, I was walking along a mall when a woman suddenly swung around and bashed into me. Man, it's going to take her about ten years to figure out where everything is, she thought as she was dragged down the hallway, mumbling sorry to the students she was bashing into. As a handful of bystanders stood by, the plows methodically bashed into the landmark's walls until a heap of black concrete filled Seventh Street. I jumped once more, letting out a yelp as my knee bashed into the table and I went crashing to the floor. Everyone, apparently, is getting fed up with mums in their Chelsea tractors, taking up too much space and generally bashing into everything. The suspension gets a bit of a hammering and there's always a danger of a truck or something bashing into you. The bulls bash into doors or the sides of buildings, sustaining bruises, cuts and broken bones and horns. The speedboat bounced along sending a cascade of waves crashing through the calmness and bashing into the smooth green walls of buildings that rose tall and defiant from the canal's glassy depths. Synonyms collide with, hit, crash into, run into, bang into, smash into, knock into, bump into, meet head-on 1.3 Criticize severely. a remark bashing the Belgian brewing industry Example sentencesExamples I for one, am hoping to see better posts, less attacks and bashing and more concerns for the topic matter. If Metallica's Lars Ulrich paused from bashing Napster to cogently denounce the Iraq war - as Wino has capably done - we would revise our opinion of the man. Although not a lawyer himself, he's made a remarkable career out of bashing the profession. For the past ten minutes of lunch, he'd been indiscriminately bashing anything worth insulting, and he'd made even the more conservative among us laugh. This success has caused Sun to put more and more emphasis on services - a strategy it had typically shied away from, preferring to bash IBM's services attack instead. Critics also bashed the law for limiting access to information and privacy. At the same time, Bush's remarks were bashed by scientists and advocates for the separation of church and state. A mysterious Internet Web site suddenly appeared, replete with altered newspaper headlines bashing Gardner and other union critics who were running for the board. I expect I'll see his writings on the topic about the same time that he links to one of the critics who have disagreed with his posts bashing Kass and the Council. Wendy was busy inventing new insults with which to bash Nats. U.S. efforts to bash Beijing reveal a remarkable ignorance about economics. So Peter Beinart is the New Republic editor who is getting beat on by Michelle Malkin for remarks he made bashing a bunch of talk radio guys going to Iraq. Just as academe got bashed for appropriating jazz, this show will face criticism for its heady approach. She babbled on and on about ‘liberals’ who spend all their time bashing the right and slandering the right and spouting lies about the right. There's nothing the London theatre critics like more than to bash Edinburgh's hyped-up hits once they reach the southern capital. Critics who bash such films as Happy Times as being heavy-handed misinterpret the key differences between Eastern and Western cinema. The source said Mr Mandelson had been referring to Mr Chirac when he criticised the tactic of ‘constantly bashing Brussels’. The critics who bash Harrington the most tend to overlook the problems Detroit has had with its passing game since his arrival. Yet even knee deep in slush, Kelly soldiers on, bashing errant boyfriends, railing against the media machine and tapping an expansive geyser of teenage venom. Synonyms vilify, disparage, denigrate, defame, run down, impugn, revile, berate, belittle, abuse, insult, slight, attack, speak badly of, speak ill of, speak evil of, pour scorn on, criticize, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, pillory, lambaste nounbaSHbæʃ informal 1A heavy blow. a bash on the head Example sentencesExamples Her head hit the pavement with a muffled bash, and she was knocked unconscious. His reward was a bash in the head with the butt of a gun. The oaf wouldn't know the difference between a crotchet, a quaver, and a bash in the chops with a bassoon. Synonyms blow, rap, hit, knock, bang, slap, crack, thump, tap, clip 2A party or social event. a birthday bash Example sentencesExamples The event was a birthday bash for KIK Corp. supremo and new Toronto Argonauts owner David Cynamon, who chartered the Air Canada jet. Matty Graham's New Year's Eve was ruined after he was dealt a sucker punch during a beer-fuelled bash. New York Social Diary is your link to the parties, events, openings, launches, shindigs, bashes, and general social whirlwind that is the East Coast social scene. ShowBiz Ireland would like to wish Ray a Happy 30th and thank all of you who attended and help make the party the bash of the year… Glenn, 58, whose 18-year-old daughter wants to act, also says she felt uncomfortable attending star-studded bashes like the Oscars because of the pressure to look good. Last-minute vacations, end-of-season backyard bashes and back-to-school prep time are keeping you mighty busy. As well as great music and dance the birthday bash will feature a yummy supper, raffles, lucky door prizes and other activities. A grand bash to celebrate his birthday was held in a posh hotel only five days earlier. All the food I made for her bash was Californian and I tried to create a layered ‘California Roll Salad’ with fresh crab meat, avocado and seaweed. Of course in my case I only let some party people know that a couple of us were having a pre party party before the main bash. This bash is being held this weekend as it is close to the 20th anniversary of the football team's first ‘European tour’ to Lloret De Mar in Spain. My birthday party was a joint bash with a good friend from College, the English Civil War Historian. Green, who chartered a plane for all 200 guests, is no stranger to hiring top stars to perform at his bashes. While a certain level of high spirits is expected at these bashes, it is considered bad form to become overly tired and emotional. Two well known locals last week celebrated with a birthday bash. He has done it all, from corporate bashes to wild parties and from product launches to music shows. The ‘American Pie’ beauty - who is frequently snapped at star-studded bashes - claims she prefers spending time with people outside the movie industry. The party in 2001 was not held due to a committee restructure, and is the only year in the last 17 years that Tropical Fruits have not held their annual bash. Her family and friends, along with staff at St. Joseph's, had a right old party bash celebrating the occasion. But doesn't opening up the Lord Mayor's official residence for corporate bashes smack slightly of commercialism? Synonyms party, gathering, social gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social Phrasal Verbs bash something out Produce something rapidly without preparation or attention to detail. Example sentencesExamples No time wasted with string sections or French-horn charts here - once Roberts has the song in his head, he just wants to bash it out. Then again, it's just as great to be The Rolling Stones and go into a room and bash it out. As far as melodies and lyrics are concerned, I think Andy was happy for me to bash things out and then give an opinion or advice on how things might progress, which was important. I used to bash them out on a manual typewriter, photocopy them and distribute. However its a good idea to bash them out yourself, it allows you to experiment quickly and cheaply, testing out different versions of how a scene may look and play on camera. Origin Mid 17th century (as a verb): imitative, perhaps a blend of bang and smash, dash, etc.. verb.1 phr.v.
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