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badmashes

badmashes is the plural of badmash.

Meaning of badmash

Noun

badmash (plural badmashes)

  1. (British, India, Pakistan, South-Asia, British Pakistani) A rogue, ruffian or miscreant.
    • ‘However big a badmash one is – if one's happy in consequence, that's some justification.’1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 102

Questions about badmashes

What is badmashes the plural of?
Badmashes is the plural of badmash.

Words near badmashes in the dictionary

  1. badmaash
  2. badmaashes
  3. badman
  4. Badmans
  5. badmash
  6. badmashes
  7. badmen
  8. badmin
  9. badmins
  10. badminton
  11. badminton ball

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