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bash informal

verb

she bashed him across the knuckles with her stick:

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.

□ bash into

they bashed into one another:

collide with, hit, crash into, run into, bang into, smash into, knock into, bump into, meet head-on.

noun

1 he got a bash on the head with a golf club:

blow, rap, hit, knock, bang, slap, crack, thump, tap, clip;

informal clout, whack, wallop.

2 Harry's birthday bash:

party, gathering, social gathering, social occasion, social event, social function, function, get-together, celebration, reunion, festivity, jamboree, reception, at-home, soirée, social;

dance, ball, ceilidh, frolic, carousal, carouse;

North American fete, hoedown, shower, bake, cookout, levee;

Australian, New Zealand corroboree;

West Indian bashment;

Hawaiian luau;

Spanish tertulia;

Judaism simcha;

informal shindig, shindy, rave, blowout, beer-up, disco, do, shebang, bop, hop, whoopee, after-party;

British, informal rave-up, thrash, knees-up, beanfeast, beano, bunfight, jolly, lig;

Irish, informal hooley, crack;

North American, informal blast, wingding, kegger;

Australian, New Zealand, informal shivoo, rage, ding, jollo, rort;

South African, informal jol;

dated squash, squeeze, ding-dong.

3 British she'll have a bash at anything:

attempt, try, effort, endeavor, bid, venture, trial, experiment;

informal crack, go, shot, stab, whack;

formal essay;

archaic assay.