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wavedash

wavedash noun: a momentum technique within competitive Super Smash Bros. done by performing an air dodge diagonally into the ground.

Noun

wavedash (plural wavedashes)

  1. (chiefly Super Smash Bros. Melee) A momentum technique within competitive Super Smash Bros. done by performing an air dodge diagonally into the ground.
    1. (broadly, chiefly Super Smash Bros. Melee) A momentum technique, exploit or intentional, involving an aerial movement angled into the ground that causes a horizontal burst of speed along it.
  2. A movement technique in competitive Tekken done by looping multiple crouch dashes into each other.

Verb

wavedash (third-person singular simple present wavedashes, present participle wavedashing, simple past and past participle wavedashed)

  1. The act of performing said technique.

wavedash meaning in Bengali

wavedash in Bengali

উক্ত কৌশলটি প্রদর্শন করা

Forms of wavedash

Noun
pluralwavedashes
Verb
third-person singular presentwavedashes
present participlewavedashing
past participlewavedashed
pastwavedashed

Origin of wavedash

From wave + dash, owing to the way characters move along the ground in a burst. The Tekken sense came first in the late 1990s, but the 2002 Super Smash Bros. sense was likely coined independently and has since become more prevalent.

Questions about wavedash

What does wavedash mean?
Wavedash means a momentum technique within competitive Super Smash Bros. done by performing an air dodge diagonally into the ground.
What is wavedash in Bengali?
Wavedash in Bengali is উক্ত কৌশলটি প্রদর্শন করা. See Wavedash meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is wavedash?
Wavedash can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of wavedash?
The plural of wavedash is wavedashes.

Words near wavedash in the dictionary

  1. waved in
  2. waved off
  3. waved the bloody shirt
  4. waved the white flag
  5. waved through
  6. wavedash
  7. wavedashed
  8. wavedashes
  9. wavedashing
  10. wavefield
  11. wavefields

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wavedash (page history and authors); wavedash (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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