Bashing (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. the act of beating, whipping, or thrashing: a series of unsolved bashings and robberies.
  2. a decisive defeat: We gave the visiting team a good bashing.
  3. (used in combination)
    • unprovoked physical assaults against members of a specified group: gay-bashing.
    • verbal abuse, as of a group or a nation: feminist-bashing; China-bashing.
adj combining form, n combining form
  1. informal
    • indicating a malicious attack on members of a particular group
    • indicating any of various other activities
Bashing (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

More Definitions