dashes

Noun

dash (countable and uncountable, plural dashes)

1. Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
   1. A hyphen or minus sign.
2. (broadly) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
3. A short run, flight.
   • When the feds came they did the dash.

   Synonyms:

   rush, sprint

4. A rushing or violent onset.
   • The oar squeaks,
     a dash sound like
     moon-hustle on the river:1987, Archie Randolph Ammons, “Coming Round”, in Robert Pack, Jay Parini, editors, Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems, Hanover and London: University Press of New England for...

   Synonyms:

   spurt, surge, thrust

5. Violent strike; a whack.
   • They say that I’m way too cold, I never get tired of rappin
     My word is bang where I come from
     Watch be one work is magic
     Do it and dash it
     Smile on MAT
     No way this peng one acting
     Who got whacked and who got slapped
     And who got spared by dashes2018 January 24, “Irrelevant Things”, performed by C1 from LTH

   Synonyms:

   blow, knock, thwack

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