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chiefly British an effort to do or accomplish something while golf isn't my game, I had to give it a bash while at Saint Andrews in Scotland

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verb (2)

present participle of bash
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There’s also a gong bash target near the middle right of the playfield. Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 15 Apr. 2025 The bash was the royal family's second major appearance of the week, following the military procession and flypast at Buckingham Palace on May 5. Janine Henni, People.com, 7 May 2025
Verb
The 26-year-old first baseman who bashed a three-run homer off Sandy Alcantara on Sunday was a fifth-year senior when Sox scouting director Mike Shirley selected him in the 10th round of the 2022 draft. Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025 Madigan is fond of the trick that is setting particularly bloody sequences to high-energy, tonally mismatched tunes — Hartnett bashes and stabs his way through everything from punk to polka aboard that flight. Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for bash

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“Bash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bash. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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