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bashfest en · NOUN

Etymology

From bash + -fest.

Meanings

  1. (informal) An event or situation involving a lot of bashing (whether physical collisions or criticism).
    • Now even Clinton's fellow Dems have joined the bashfest, leading to an extraordinarily lopsided House vote to ban satellite sales to China […] 1998, Newsweek, volume 131, page 140:
    • In this bash-fest, the objective of each entry was to deliberately cause crashes. The cars raced around the track looking to smash into another car and disable it. 2010, Larry Upton, Jonathan Jeffrey, Bowling Green Stock Car Racing:

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