Bash

Definition: Bash

Bash

Noun

1. A vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head".

2. An uproarious party.

Verb

1. Hit hard.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Computing

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BASH

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Synonyms: Bash

Crosswords: Bash

Hulk bash! Hulk crash (The Incredible Hulk; writing credit: Jack Kirby; Stan Lee)

You cannot bash in the head of an American citizen without written permission from the State Department (Bananas; writing credit: Woody Allen; Mickey Rose)

Bash in my brain, (The Masochism Tango; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Janet's Birthday Bash (1972)

Fast Forward: Ten Year Bash (2002)

Hardbody 2002 2: Chi Chi's Birthday Bash (2001)

Saturday Night Live: Presidential Bash 2000 (2000)

XGames 2K Kickoff Bash (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Birthday Bash! (reference)

• Learning the Bash Shell (Nutshell Handbooks) (reference)

• The Best Bash Book (Young Women of Faith Library) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bikini Bash (reference)

• Sammy Hagar & the Waboritas - Cabo Wabo Birthday Bash Tour (reference)

• Rugrats - Bedtime Bash (reference)

• Saturday Night Live - Presidential Bash 2000 (reference)

• The Powerpuff Girls - Birthday Bash (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Band Is Born/Big Band Bash (reference)

• Big Band Percussion/Big Band Bash (reference)

• Pokemon: Christmas Bash (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Crash Bash (reference)

• Cubix Robots for Everyone: Clash 'N Bash (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Get down with us at the Y.W.L.L. holiday season bash. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "bash": bash about ♦ bash down ♦ bash in ♦ bash into smb. ♦ bash up ♦ have a bash ♦ have a bash at ♦ have a bash at smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "bash": bash-up.

Ending with "bash": crash-bash, euro-bash.

Albanian

përplas (clash, crash, flap, fling, grind, knock, slam), goditje (assault, bang, batting, beat, biff, blow, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clean and jerk, clip, dash, dint, drive, fib, flap, hit, ictus, impingement, incitement, infliction, jab, joggle, jolt, knock, knocking, lick, percussion, poke, pound, push, shock, slat, sock, stimulus, strike, stroke, thrust, thwack, tremor, welt), godit (beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, deal, defeat, hit, impinge, instigate, joggle, jostle, knock, pound, shock, shove, slam, smite, stab, strike, tap, thrash, thwack, whack), godas (affect, astonish smb., beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, defeat, drop, hit, impinge, knock, pound, smite, stab, strike, whack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سحق (batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏ضربة عنيفة (bang, knock, knockdown, slam, smack, smash, swat, swipe, thwack, wallop, whack), ‏ضرب بعنف (bang, baste, lambaste, maul, slam, smite, swat, swipe, thump, whack, whale). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удряне (beating, impact, knocking, stroke), удрям (bang against, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), халосвам (bang, bang against), тряскам, трясване (hurtle). (various references)

Chinese 

�"击 (Bashed, Bashing, Battered, battering, Batting). (various references)

Czech

strefovat se, rána (bang, biff, blow, bounce, clout, hit, knock, rap, report, shock, shot, slap, slash, sock, strike, stroke, swipe, whack, whang, wound), praštit (belt, bust, catch, fling, hit, hurl, knock, slosh, slug, strike, swipe), mlátit (hammer away, thrash, thresh). (various references)

Danish

pot (boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, marihuana, marijuana, Mary Jane, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), græs (grass, herb). (various references)

Dutch

wiet (boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), wied (boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), weed (boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), pot (box, container, jug, pot, vase, vessel), Marihuana (marijuana), gras (grass, herb). (various references)

Farsi 

ترسیدن (Abhor, Quail, Scare), ترساندن (Abhor, Affray, Appall, Awe, Buffalo, Cow, Daunt, Deter, Feeze, Fray, Fright, Horrify, Huff, Intimidate, Scare, Shore, Spook, Threat, Tremble), خجلت (Shame), شرمنده شدن (Blush), دست پاچه نمودن (Abash), برهم زدن (Coup, Derange, Disarrange, Disband, Disorder, Disturb, Ruffle, Tousle, Unsettle). (various references)

French

baby (baby), herbe, cage (basket), chiendent, cogner (bat), coup de poing, douce, H, weed, jive, marie-jeanne, pot, roses, tea, thé, frapper (bat, batter). (various references)

German

hauen (beat, belt, carve, chop, chuck, clap, clobber, clout, conk, cut, cutting, fling, hack, hew, hewed, hit, hoes, knock, lash out, make a thrust, quarry, sculpture, shove, slap, slash, sock, strike, thump, to bash). (various references)

Greek 

κτυπώ δυνατά (slam, slog, slug, sock, swipe, whack), βίαιο χτύπημα, χόρτο (grass, herb). (various references)

Hungarian

horpadás (bruise, buckle, dent, depression, dint, indenture, kink, pan). (various references)

Indonesian

tamparan (clap, slap), menampar (box, knock, slap). (various references)

Italian

marijuana (marihuana, marijuana), fumata (boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), erba (grass, herb, pot), colpire con violenza (slog), canna (barrel, cane, canna, crossbar, fishing rod, funnel, pipe, Reed, rod, stick), arrossire (blush, color, colour, crimson, flush, redden). (various references)

Korean 

강타 (bang, Bangs, Bashing, Clout, smite, Smiting, swat, swipe, Swiping, thump). (various references)

Manx

labbal (banging, buffeting, clout, clouting, cuff, hit, hitting, knock, strike, striking, thump, thumping), labb (blow, bump, clout, cuff, thump), bwoalley (assault, bang, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, hit, knock, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop), builley (beat, beat as pulse, bump, cadence, cadence of voice, cast, choosing, clap, fervour, fit, frenzy, hit, impact, knock, madness, pulsate, pulsation, punch, slam, slap, strike, stroke, sweep, thump, toot, toot on horn, whack). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashbay.(various references)

Portuguese

boi (bovine animal, bull, ox, steer), bater com força em (whang), bater (bang, baste, bat, batter, beat, biff, bob, bop, brandish, chastise, churn, clap, club, curl, curry, deckle, dodder, flap, fling, flog, forge, form, froth, hit, hunt, jab, knead, knock, lam, lap, lick, plash, pulsate, pulse, ram, scutch, slap, slog, sound, splash, stir, strike, swing, thrash, thresh, type, wave, whack, whip, whirl, whisk, worst), surrar (clapperclaw, drub, lash, wallop), seruma (boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pot, puff, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), pancada (bang, bat, biff, blow, bob, bop, clout, crack, cram, dint, drub, flaw, flick, knock, lick, milling, pelt, plunk, shock, smacker, stinger, strike, stroke, swat), golpe esmagador, esmagar (basil, bray, break, bruise, crush, jam, kibble, lead on, mash, meal, overwhelm, pound, press, pulverize, shatter, smash, squash, squelch, suppress, triturate, whelm), erva (grass, herb). (various references)

Romanian

pocni (clack, click, crack, crackle, hit), izbi (clash, hit, jar, lash, seize, smash, smite, strike, thrust). (various references)

Russian 

удар (a smack in the eye /in the face/, apoplexy, blow, box, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clap, cob, cut, dash, fit of apoplexy, hit, impact, impingement, jab, kick, knock, loft, lunge, percussion, pick, push, putt, shock, stabbings, stroke, swat, thrust, wallop, well-judged blow, welt), сильный удар (bang, biff, clip, humming blow, lick, pelt, plunk, polt, slog, staggerer, swinger, swipe, thwack, wallop, whack), хлопать (clap, slam), колотить (batter, beat, belabour, lambaste, larrup, lick, pelt, pounding, pummel, strike, thwack, whack, whop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udariti (bang, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, drive in, hack, hit, jog, knock, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, stub, swipe, wallop, whack), tresnuti (dash, slap). (various references)

Spanish

asestar un golpe. (various references)

Swedish

slå (bang, beat, bolt, buffet, cap, capture, cast, catch, crossbar, dash, defeat, dial, drive, flap, hit, hurt smb., hurtle, impinge, knock, lay, lick, mow, palpitate, pour, punch, ram, sit, slam, slap, slat, smash, smite, strike, stroke, tack, throw, trounce, warble, whang, whip). (various references)

Thai

ชนแรง, วิจาร�"์อย่างรุนแรง (censure). (various references)

Turkish

sertçe vurmak, sert vuruş (slog, slug, welt), parti (do, get together, hand, parcel, party, setout, shindig, shipment), indirmek (bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), geçirmek (carry, come through, communicate, conduct, Dot, dot smb. one, extrude, fetch, get over, get through, make pass, outstay, pass, pass away, pass on, post, put in, reach, scarf, screw, see off, see smb. to the door, show smb. to the door, slip, spend, spin out, stick, swipe, take in, transfer, transmit, undergo, while away, wile away, work out), eğlence (amusement, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport), deneme (assay, crack, dissertation, effort, essay, experiment, experimentation, fling, go, pilot, practice, probation, proof, proving, shakedown, shot, study, tentative, test, testing, touch, trial, try, try out, whack, workout), darbe (beat, biff, blow, brunt, bump, chop, clip, clout, concussion, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, crusher, cut, dash, facer, finisher, hack, hit, ictus, impact, jolt, kayo, knock, pound, putsch, shock, smasher, stroke, thwack, whack, whammy), cümbüş (bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb). (various references)

Ukrainian

сильно бити, сильний удар (bang, lick, oner, pelt, plunk, slam, slog, spanker, staggerer, swat, swinger, swipe, wallop), гамселити, атака (assault, offensive, onfall, onrush, onset). (various references)

Vietnamese 

gắng l� m việc đó. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bash": bashaw, bashaws, bashed, basher, bashers, bashes, bashful, bashfully, bashfulness, bashfulnesses, bashing, bashlyk, bashlyks. (additional references)

Words ending with "bash": abash, calabash, kurbash. (additional references)

Words containing "bash": abashed, abashes, abashing, abashment, abashments, calabashes, kurbashed, kurbashes, kurbashing, unabashed, unabashedly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baah, babsha, Badh, Bagh, baha, bahg, bahm, baho, bahs, Bahu, Bakha, Bakht, balh, bamh, Bamhl, baph, barsh, basa, Basche, basf, Basha, basho, Bashow, Bashy, Basm, baso, basq, bassy, basw, basx, bauh, Bayh, baz, Bcas, besht, besm, Bisch, bish, Bishp, Bishr, Bishri, Bosha, Bpas, bsa, Bsaa, busht, obesh, sabh, vash. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: abs, ash, bah, bas, has, sab, sha.

-2 letters: ab, ah, as, ba, ha, sh.

+1 letter: abash, bahts, baths, blahs, brash, habus, sahib, subah.

+2 letters: abhors, ablush, abmhos, abohms, ambush, baches, banish, bashaw, bashed, basher, bashes, bathes, bathos, bhangs, bimahs, boheas, brachs, brashy, bugsha, buqsha, bushwa, casbah, habits, kasbah, obeahs, rehabs, sahibs, shabby, shibah, subahs.

+3 letters: abashed, abashes, abolish, absinth, babyish, baldish, banshee, banshie, barhops, bashaws, bashers, bashful, bashing, bashlyk, batches, batfish, bathers, beaches, beamish, bearish, beauish, behaves, beheads, berthas, beshame, bhaktas, bhaktis, bharals, boarish, braches, brahmas, brasher, brashes, brashly, breaths, bugshas, buqshas, bushman, bushwah, bushwas, bypaths, casbahs, cashbox, chablis, chabuks, habitus, haboobs, hagbush, hagbuts, harbors, herbals, hubcaps, husband, hushaby, isobath, jubbahs, jubhahs, kasbahs, keblahs, kiblahs, kurbash, maybush, mihrabs, phobias, rhumbas, sabbath, sambhar, sambhur, shamble, shebang, shebean, shibahs, subhead, sunbath, tarbush, washtub.