An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BASH
knock, bash, bang, smash, belt
(noun) a vigorous blow; “the sudden knock floored him”; “he took a bash right in his face”; “he got a bang on the head”
bash, do, brawl
(noun) an uproarious party
sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash
(verb) hit hard
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)
To strike heavily.
To collide.
To criticize harshly.
(British, slang) To masturbate.
Noun
bash (plural bashes)
A large party; gala event.
An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.
Etymology 2
Verb
bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)
(obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Anagrams
• AHBs, Bahs, HABs, HBAs, Habs, bahs, habs, shab
Etymology
Proper noun
Bash
(computing) the Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating system.
(computer languages) Scripting language provided with this interpreter.
Shortening of Sebastian
Anagrams
• AHBs, Bahs, HABs, HBAs, Habs, bahs, habs, shab
Source: Wiktionary
Bash, v. t. & i. Etym: [OE. baschen, baissen. See Abash.]
Definition: To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance. [Obs.] His countenance was bold and bashed not. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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