Bash

Bash may refer to:

• To hit something

It may also mean:

In computing

• Bash (Unix shell), a Unix command shell written for the GNU project
• Bug bash, a software testing technique

In music

• Bash & Pop, the band that Tommy Stinson formed after the dissolution of The Replacements
• Bash!, the third full length and the first Christmas album from the a cappella group Rockapella
• Pokémon Christmas Bash (see List of Pokémon theme songs), Christmas songs performed by characters of the Pokémon television series
• The Bash (band), popular cover band from Calgary and Long Island, New York
• Bash (band)

In sport

• WWE The Great American Bash, a pay-per-view professional wrestling event
  • WWE The Bash, the final event in WWE The Great American Bash chronology
• The Great American Bash, a former professional wrestling event
• Bash at the Beach, a former pay-per-view professional wrestling event
• KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, the domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Australia
• Plot 'n' bash, a term used to describe a style of navigational information used on road rallies
• Bike hash, an event organized by Hash House Bikers

In film, television, and theatre

• Bash: Latter-Day Plays are three one-act plays by Neil LaBute (1999)
• The Bash Street Kids and the Bash Street School, which appear in a UK comic, The Beano, and in an annual book, The Bash Street Kids Annual
• Behind the Bash, a show hosted by Giada De Laurentiis currently on Food Network
• Joe Bash, an American television series that ran on the ABC network from March 28 to May 9, 1986
• Killer Bash, a homoerotic horror movie released in 2005, directed by David DeCoteau

Electronic games

• Bust-A-Move Bash!, a 2007 video game released by Majesco for Nintendo's Wii console
• Crash Bash, a 2000 game for the PlayStation
• Franco Bash, a Fatal Fury character
• Monster Bash, a 1993 video game created by Apogee Software

A party or gala event

• A party, a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, or recreation
• Block Party Bash, a hybrid stage show and parade that played at Disney's California Adventure park from 2005 to 2008
• Bulldog Bash, a popular annual European motorcycle festival
• Hash Bash, an annual event in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in favor of marijuana

People

• Baby Bash (born 1975), also known as Baby Beesh ( as Ronnie Ray Bryant), a Latin American hip-hop artist
• Dana Bash (born 1971), CNN reporter and anchorwoman
• Jeremy Bash (born 1971), Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Defense
• Todd Bash (born 1965), avant-garde playwright from Los Angeles, California
• Bash, nickname of E. J. H. Nash (1898–1982), an influential evangelical clergyman

Places

• Ala-Bash, a village in the Issyk Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan
• Bash Bish Falls, a waterfall in southwestern Massachusetts in the Bash Bish Falls State Park
• Bash-Bulak, a village in the Osh Province of Kyrgyzstan
• Bash-Kaindy, a village in the Naryn Province of Kyrgyzstan
• Bash-Karakain, a village in the Naryn Province of Kyrgyzstan
• Bash-Khynysly, a village in the Shamakhi Rayon of Azerbaijan
• Chub Bash, a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan

Other

• Battle of Bash Abaran, Caucasus, 1918
• Broken Arrow Senior High, the highest level of secondary education in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
• Bird strike is also called BASH (bird aircraft strike hazard)
• Bash Back!, a network of radical, anarchist and anti-authoritarian queer projects within the United States
• Bash Chelik ("Man of Steel"), a famous Serbian folk tale
• British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH), UK charity and member of the Headache UK alliance
• Qizilbash, a Muslim religious brotherhood
• Kitbashing, a scale modeler's term for modifying a commercial model kit into a unique or unavailable model

See also

• Bashing (disambiguation)
• Bashful (disambiguation)