dash

Synonyms: 4uck ay chihuahua blast bugger bummer byrlady consarn it crap crud curses dammit damn dadgummit dagnabbit dang dang it darn darn it dash dash it dizamn d'oh doggone

Hypernyms: punctuation mark

1. (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.

   Hypernyms: punctuation mark

• When the feds came they did the dash.

Synonyms: rush sprint

• 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...

Synonyms: spurt surge thrust

• 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...

Synonyms: blow knock thwack

• Add a dash of vinegar.

Synonyms: drop skoosh soupçon ace atom atomy aught bissel bit crumb glimpse dab damn dash diddly glint dot spatter dusting fleck glimmer hint flip flyspeck

• There is a dash of craziness in his personality.

Synonyms: element hint touch

• Aren't we full of dash this morning?

Synonyms: energy vim vitality

• The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa. - 1992,...
• Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law, from 8 to 20 rods according to...
• The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars. - 2008, Lizzie Williams, updated by Mark Shenley, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide, published 2012, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 109:

Synonyms: douceur sweetener backhander bribe bung coffee money cold drink money dash inducement kopi money pay-off payola subornation tea money benefaction boon concession donative fairing gift grant present tithing

• Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and...
• Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here? - 1884, Lord Robert Gower, My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524

Synonyms: beep blankety-blank

• The dash clock said 2:38 when[…] I turned off a dirt road[…]. - 1955 October 19, Rex Stout, The Next Witness, Three Witnesses, 94 Bantam, →ISBN, page 31:

Synonyms: control panel instrument panel

1. (Internet, informal) The dashboard of a social media user.

   • -i hope you find at least one thing on your dash that will make you laugh today. - 2018, anonymous, quoted in Mélanie Bourdaa, "'May We Meet Again': Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom", in A...
   • i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see my dash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me. - 2018, "notthesameknowledge", quoted in Randall Lake, Recovering Argument, unnumbered page
   • “You wanna know what else is all over my dash? Gifs of you and your boyfriend." - 2018, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Alphas Like Us, unnumbered page:

   Synonyms: control panel instrument panel timeline feed graphical user interface

• He dashed across the field.
• As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained. - 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey...

Synonyms: bolt rush sprint

• I have to dash now. See you soon.

Synonyms: go take off beat it bug off remove bugger off book bounce buzz off chuck cut one's stick dash depart duck out exit get away get out go away go out GTFO leave make tracks move on namous

• He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
• There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel. - 1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia...
• Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes. - 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:

Synonyms: beat whack bang baste batter belabor blow boom-boom buffet butt calcitrate cuff dab dash dowse feeze fetch one a blow flap give toco kick knock hammer hit impact

• The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
• If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound. - 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie....
• The rooks are blown about the skies; The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d, ⁠The cattle huddled on the lea; ⁠And wildly dash’d on tower and tree The sunbeam strikes along the world: […] - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson],...

Synonyms: chuck feck fling sling bung cast chunk cook dash dump jerk heave hield hoy huck hurl hurtle launch lob peck peg pick pitch precipitate

• On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall. - a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […],...
• The very source and fount of Day Is dash’d with wandering isles of night. - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 41:
• [W]hen I draw any faulty character, I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it, and take care to dash it with such particular circumstances as may prevent all such ill-natured...

Synonyms: dust powder sparge scatter speckle strew

• to dash wine with water

Synonyms: adulter corrupt debase pollute sophisticate abase adulterate adulterize alloy balderdash bastardize dash dilute embase

• Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
• Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund. - 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia...

Synonyms: snuff wreck annihilate bag baptize bereave of life blight bring down bump off bury cack compromised to a permanent end croak crush dash deactivate dead demolish destroy dispatch dispose of do do in dust

• Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.

Synonyms: deject depress aggrieve attrist begloom begrieve besorrow grieve pain bring down come down on contristate darken dash desolate dispirit engrieve forset get down grieven moan oppress repent rue

• He dashed down his eggs.
• She dashed off her homework.

• "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe. - 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter I, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […]...
• Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table. - 2002, Robert Andrews, “Twenty”, in A Murder of Promise, 1st edition, New York City: Putnam's, published...

• Dash his impudence! Who is that scoundrel?

Synonyms: darn eff frig