bashing
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See also: Bashing
Pronunciation
Verb
bashing
- present participle and gerund of bash
Noun
bashing (plural bashings)
- An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.
- Synonym: beating
- 1960 [1959], Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, New York: Macmillan, page 34:
- I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’
- 2018 May 31, Daniel Boffey, quoting Jean-Claude Juncker, “Russia-bashing must stop, says Jean-Claude Juncker”, in The Guardian:
- Jean-Claude Juncker has called for an end to “Russia-bashing” two months after scores of Moscow’s diplomats across the EU were expelled in response to the use of a nerve agent in the UK.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → German: Bashing
Translations
beating — see beating
Further reading
- “bashing n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
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