2. Noun. An instance of bashing; a physical attack. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bashing
1. an act of beating [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bashing
Literary usage of Bashing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"There, ever bask in uncreated rays, But bashing and flashing, The Cotters Sat.
Night, lo. Bask'd. He levell'd his rays where she bask'd on the brae S. The ..."
2. Programming, Pitfalls and Puppy-Dog Tales by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"NOTE DON'T MISTAKE THIS “BUSH bashing AS ANTI-REPUBLICANISM! Many of our Officers
are deeply involved in either the Socialist Republican party or the ..."
3. Threads of Silk by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1992)
"NEW GAME--PEROT-bashing The spokesperson quoted in this morning's TV mush (and
we must assume it was one of the Republicans) said that several years ago ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"bashing. ' A bashing wet time.'—Modern Husbandman, V. i. 57. See preceding.
A bashing wet time would mean that the rain was so heavy as to boat down the ..."
5. The slang dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"The worst that can happen to a brutal ruffian is to receive " a bashing in, and
a bashing out,"—a flogging at the commencement and another at the close of ..."
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