"Dash" Definition

Definitions for the word "Dash" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v.
1 rush. 2 strike or fling forcefully, esp. So as to shatter (dashed it to the ground). 3 frustrate, dispirit (dashed their hopes). 4 colloq. (esp. Dash it or dash it all) = *damn v. 1. n. 1 rush or onset; sudden advance. 2 horizontal stroke (–) in writing or printing to mark a pause etc. 3 impetuous vigour; capacity for or appearance of this. 4 us sprinting-race. 5 longer signal of two in morse code (cf. *dot n. 2). 6 slight admixture, esp. Of a liquid. 7 = *dashboard. dash off write or draw hurriedly. [imitative]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
2. slang
to jot down suddenly. “Things I have DASHED off at a moment’s notice.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
3. slang
fire, vigour, manliness. Literary and artistic work is often said to be full of DASH.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
4. slang
an ejaculation, as “DASH my wig!” “DASH my buttons!” A relic of the attempts made, when cursing was fashionable, to be in the mode without using “bad words.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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