1. [n]  a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
2. [n]  an uproarious party
3. [v]  hit hard

1. \Bash\, v. t. & i. [OE. baschen, baissen. See {Abash}.]
   To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of
   countenance. [Obs.]
   
         His countenance was bold and bashed not. --Spenser.
   
   

2. \Bash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bashing}.] [Perh. of imitative origin; or cf. Dan. baske to
   strike, bask a blow, Sw. basa to beat, bas a beating.]
   To strike heavily; to beat; to crush. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
   --Hall Caine.
   
         Bash her open with a rock.               --Kipling.
   
   

Bourne Again SHell. gnu's command interpreter for unix. Bash is a posix-compatible shell with full bourne shell syntax, and some c shell commands built in. The Bourne Again Shell supports emacs-style command-line editing, job control, functions, and on-line help. Written by Brian Fox of ucsb.

The latest version is 1.14.1. It includes a yacc parser, the interpreter and documentation.

or from a gnu archive site. E-mail: <bug-bash@gnu.org>. usenet newsgroup: news:gnu.bash.bug.