BASHING


Meaning of BASHING in English

/bash"ing/ , n.

1. the act of beating, whipping, or thrashing: a series of unsolved bashings and robberies.

2. a decisive defeat: We gave the visiting team a good bashing.

3. (used in combination)

a. unprovoked physical assaults against members of a specified group: gay-bashing.

b. verbal abuse, as of a group or a nation: feminist-bashing; China-bashing.

[ 1725-35; BASH + ING 1 ]

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