Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
The Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating systems.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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name
The scripting language provided with this interpreter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computer-languages, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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name
A diminutive of the male given name Sebastian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A forceful blow or impact.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
A large party; a gala event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
An attempt at doing something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, informal
Synonyms: lash
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To strike heavily; to beat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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verb
To collide; used with into or together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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verb
To criticize harshly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
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verb
To abash (make ashamed)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
a vigorous blow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: knock, bang, smash, belt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blow, bump
noun
an uproarious party
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: do, brawl
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: party
verb
hit hard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hit
History
Short for Bourne-again shell, a pun on the name of the Bourne shell, an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen R. Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".
Reflecting a dialect in which /s/ assimilates to /ʃ/ before /tʃ/
From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)
From Middle English baschen, baissen. See abash.
Across languages
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
