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bashing out

bashing out is the present participle and gerund of bash out.

Meaning of bash out

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

Questions about bashing out

What is bashing out the present participle and gerund of?
Bashing out is the present participle and gerund of bash out.

Words near bashing out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bashing out (page history and authors); bash out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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