Definition: bash

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

bash
     n 1: a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a
          bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
          [syn: knock, bang, smash, belt]
     2: an uproarious party [syn: do, brawl]
     v : hit hard [syn: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Bash \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.
Bash \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.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

bash

   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.

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/bash-1.14.1.tar.gz or from a
   GNU archive site.  E-mail: <<a href="mailto:bug-bash@gnu.org">bug-bash@gnu.org>.
   Usenet newsgroup: news:gnu.bash.bug.

   (1994-07-15)

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001 

BASH
        Bourne-Again SHell (Unix, Shell)