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bashfest

noun

Etymology

From bash + -fest.

  1. derived from *baska✻ — “to strike”
  2. inherited from *basshen✻
  3. suffixed as bashfest — “bash + fest”

Definitions

  1. An event or situation involving a lot of bashing (whether physical collisions or…

    An event or situation involving a lot of bashing (whether physical collisions or criticism).

    • Now even Clinton's fellow Dems have joined the bashfest, leading to an extraordinarily lopsided House vote to ban satellite sales to China […]
    • In this bash-fest, the objective of each entry was to deliberately cause crashes. The cars raced around the track looking to smash into another car and disable it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bashfest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA