wavedash

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noun

A momentum technique within competitive Super Smash Bros. done by performing an air dodge diagonally into the ground.

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Meanings

nounwavedash (plural wavedashes)

plural wavedashes

  1. chiefly Super Smash Bros. Meleevideo gamesA momentum technique within competitive Super Smash Bros. done by performing an air dodge diagonally into the ground.
    1. broadlychiefly Super Smash Bros. Meleevideo gamesA momentum technique, exploit or intentional, involving an aerial movement angled into the ground that causes a horizontal burst of speed along it.
  2. video gamesA movement technique in competitive Tekken done by looping multiple crouch dashes into each other.
verbwavedash (third-person singular simple present wavedashes, present participle wavedashing, simple past and past participle wavedashed)

present singular third person wavedashes · participle present wavedashing · participle past wavedashed · past wavedashed

  1. The act of performing said technique.

Origin

From wave + dash, owing to the way characters move along the ground in a burst. The Tekken sense came first in the late 1990s, but the 2002 Super Smash Bros. sense was likely coined independently and has since become more prevalent.

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APA

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

MLA

“wavedash.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wavedash. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wavedash,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wavedash.

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