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do the dash

do the dash verb: to hurriedly part with one’s current location, to escape, to flee the scene.

Verb

do the dash (third-person singular simple present does the dash, present participle doing the dash, simple past did the dash, past participle done the dash)

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, idiomatic) To hurriedly part with one’s current location, to escape, to flee the scene.

do the dash meaning in Bengali

do the dash in Bengali

পালিয়ে যাওয়া, ঘটনাস্থল থেকে পালানো

Forms of do the dash

third-person singular presentdoes the dash
present participledoing the dash
pastdid the dash
past participledone the dash

Questions about do the dash

What does do the dash mean?
Do the dash means to hurriedly part with one’s current location, to escape, to flee the scene.
What is do the dash in Bengali?
Do the dash in Bengali is পালিয়ে যাওয়া, ঘটনাস্থল থেকে পালানো. See Do the dash meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is do the dash?
Do the dash is a verb.
What is the past tense of do the dash?
The past tense of do the dash is did the dash.

Words near do the dash in the dictionary

  1. do someone's heart good
  2. do svidaniia
  3. do svidaniya
  4. do svidanya
  5. do tell
  6. do the dash
  7. do the decent thing
  8. do the deed
  9. do the dirty on
  10. do the dishes
  11. do the Dutch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: do the dash (page history and authors); do the dash (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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