lash

Plural: lashes

Noun

• any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
• leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
• a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
• The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
• A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
• A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
• A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
• A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
• A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
• In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
• An attempt; a go at something.
• Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).

Verb

Verb Forms: lashed, lashing, lashes

• To strike violently with a whip or similar implement.
• beat severely with a whip or rod
• lash or flick about sharply
  • "The lion lashed its tail"
• strike as if by whipping
• bind with a rope, chain, or cord
  • "lash the horse"
• To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
• To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
• To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
• To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
• To ply the whip; to strike.
• To strike vigorously; to let fly.
• To utter censure or sarcastic language.
• To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
• Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
• To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

Adj

• Remiss, lax.
• Relaxed.
• Soft, watery, wet.
• Excellent, wonderful.
• Drunk.

Examples

• excessive lash in the gear train
• He managed to LASH together a seven-letter word, scoring big on his Scrabble turn.
• I'll have a lash.
• setting the proper valve lash for solid lifters
• That Chinese (food) was lash!
• The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
• We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!

Synonyms

cilium, eyelash, flog, lather, slash, strap, thong, trounce, welt, whip, whiplash, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, ace, admirable, adrip, airy, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, at ease, at fault, awe-inspiring, awesome, backlash#Noun, bang on, bang-up, based, bash, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, beneship, berate, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bewatered, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bitching, bladdered, blameworthy, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bomb, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, brilliant, budgy, bully, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', calm, canned, carefree, careless, casual, cher, chill, choice, chronic, chur, clobbered, cock on, cocked, cockeyed, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, copacetic, corned, crackerjack, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cushty, cut, damp, dank, dead drunk, def, destroyed, devil-may-care, disguised, dope, drenched, dripping, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, easy-breezy, easygoing, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, equable, equanimitable, equanimous, even-keeled, even-minded, even-tempered, excellent, exceptional, fab, fabulous, faced, fantabulosa, fantastic, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, finger-lickin' good, fireball, first-rate, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fly, fou, four sheets in the wind, frabjous, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, gnarly, great, groggified, groggy, grouse, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, happy-go-lucky, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, humid, impaired, imperturbable, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, indifferent, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, insouciant, inter pocula, irriguous, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kicking, killer, kisky, laid-back, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, lautitious, legless, leisurely, level-headed, lighthearted, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lost motion#Noun, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mad with it, madid, maggot, maggoted, marvelous, mashed, maudlin, medicated, mellow, messed up, moist, moisty, monged, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nang, nappy, neglectful, negligent, newted, nimptopsical, nonchalant, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, outstanding, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, overwatered, pacate, pacific, paralytic, parlatic, peaceable, peaceful, peng, phat, phenomenal, phlegmatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, placid, plashy, plastered, play#Noun, ploughed, plowed, pococurante, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, pukka, quality, quiescent, quiet, quisby, rad, raddled, radical, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, relaxed, reprehensible, ripe, ripped, rolling, roolie, rubbered, rum, saturated, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sedate, serene, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, sick, skunked, slammed, slap-up, slarmied, slick, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaked, soaken, sodden, soggy, solute, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spewy, spiffed, spiffing, splashed, splendid, spongy, sprung, squidgy, squiffed, steamboats, sterling, stewed, still, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, super, superb, superior, swacked, sweet, swell, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, terrific, thoan, thone, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top, top-drawer, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, top-hole, top-notch, top-of-the-range, top-shelf, toping, topping, tranquil, trashed, tubular, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, unanxious, unbothered, unconcerned, undried, unexcited, unfazed, unflappable, unflustered, unperturbable, unruffable, unruffled, untumultuous, unworried, wanton, wastey, watered, waterlogged, watery, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, wetter than an otter's pocket, whittled, wicked, wicked pissah, wiery, withered, wobbly, wonderful, woozy, worldie, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Antonyms

unlash

Anagrams of lash