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bash out

bash out verb: to write or type something very quickly, without much thought.

Verb

bash out (third-person singular simple present bashes out, present participle bashing out, simple past and past participle bashed out)

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To write or type something very quickly, without much thought.
    • I've got about an hour in which to bash something out for the morning edition.
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To play (a tune) clumsily on a piano or similar instrument.
    • Well, by the mid-'70s Patti Smith really couldn't help it: she was bashing out guitar feedback, copping Keith Richards stances, and screaming out raw poetry laced with surreal images.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 348

Forms of bash out

third-person singular presentbashes out
present participlebashing out
past participlebashed out
pastbashed out

Questions about bash out

What does bash out mean?
Bash out means to write or type something very quickly, without much thought.
What part of speech is bash out?
Bash out is a verb.
What is the past tense of bash out?
The past tense of bash out is bashed out.

Words near bash out in the dictionary

  1. bash and grab
  2. bash and grabs
  3. bash in
  4. bash into shape
  5. bash one out
  6. bash out
  7. bash someone's face in
  8. bash someone's head
  9. bash the bishop
  10. bash together
  11. bash up

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