bash out

verb

To write or type something very quickly, without much thought.

“I've got about an hour in which to bash something out for the morning edition.”

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Meanings

verbbash out (third-person singular simple present bashes out, present participle bashing out, simple past and past participle bashed out)

present singular third person bashes out · participle present bashing out · participle past bashed out · past bashed out

  1. colloquialtransitiveTo write or type something very quickly, without much thought.

    I've got about an hour in which to bash something out for the morning edition.

  2. colloquialtransitiveTo play (a tune) clumsily on a piano or similar instrument.

    Well, by the mid-'70s Patti Smith really couldn't help it: she was bashing out guitar feedback, copping Keith Richards stances, and screaming out raw poetry laced with surreal images.

    1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 348
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APA

bash out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bash%20out

MLA

“bash out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bash%20out. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bash out,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bash%20out.

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