Definitions for dashes

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dashes dash

Spelling: [dash]

IPA: /dæʃ/

Dashes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in dashes (adehss).

Definitions for dashes

noun

1. a small quantity of anything thrown into or mixed with something else:
2. a hasty or sudden movement; a rush or sudden onset:
3. the mark or sign (—) used to note an abrupt break or pause in a sentence or hesitation in an utterance, to begin and end a parenthetic word, phrase, or clause, to indicate the omission of letters or words, to divide a line, to substitute for certain uses of the colon, and to separate any of various elements of a sentence or series of sentences, as a question from its answer.
4. the throwing or splashing of liquid against something:
5. the sound of such splashing:
6. spirited action; élan; vigor in action or style:
7. Track. a short race:
8. dashboard (def 1).
9. Telegraphy. a signal of longer duration than a dot, used in groups of dots, dashes, and spaces to represent letters, as in Morse code.
10. a hasty stroke, especially of a pen.
11. Archaic. a violent and rapid blow or stroke.
12. a tip, bribe, or recompense.
13. bribery.

Idioms

1. cut a dash, to make a striking impression; be ostentatious or showy.

Verb phrases

1. dash off, to hurry away; leave: Also, dash down. to write, make, accomplish, etc., hastily:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or smash violently, especially so as to break to pieces:
2. to throw or thrust violently or suddenly:
3. to splash, often violently; bespatter (with water, mud, etc.):
4. to apply roughly, as by splashing:
5. to mix or adulterate by adding another substance:
6. to ruin or frustrate (hopes, plans, etc.):
7. to depress; dispirit:
8. to confound or abash:
9. to damn (usually used as an interjection).
10. to give a tip or bribe to (especially a government employee).

verb (used without object)

1. to strike with violence:
2. to move with violence; rush:

Origin of dashes

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English dasshen, perhaps Old Norse; compare Danish daske slap, flap, Swedish daska; (noun) Middle English: blow, clash, derivative of the v.

Examples for dashes

Once having agreed to the change, she would carry it off with a dash.

Is there a back door where we can dash out and give them the slip?

He sloshes motor oil over himself, the front seat, and the dash to conceal clues and leaves the car at Cortland Line Company.

"With just a dash of orange bitters in it," another might add.

Local and foreign fashionistas will fill the front rows at the very last minute and dash out when the music is still on.

Family crests and nicknames are stitched into headrests, colors are specified for seat stitching, veneers are chosen for the dash.

Xuereb was ordered to stay 100 yards away from dash and her two children (neither of whom are his).

For goodness' sake, let's dash as fast as we can, down into the garden, and do the same thing!

In 2010, dash filed for divorce from her husband, Emmanuel Xuereb, alleging years of abuse.

Chip really felt that way about it, after the first dash of wounded pride.