dash
verb
uk
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/dæʃ/dash verb (MOVE QUICKLY)
dash around I've been dashing around all day.
UK I must dash - I've got to be home by seven.
- speedHe ran back to his car and sped off.
- raceShe raced over and hugged me.
- flyShe flew across the room just in time to stop the baby falling off the chair.
- beltUK Traffic was belting along the motorway.
- tearA fire truck came tearing down the road.
- streakBullets streaked across the sky.
- We dashed for the train, but it was already pulling away from the platform.
- Sit down for a minute - you've been dashing around all day.
- I'm sorry, but I've got to dash or I'll be late collecting the children from school.
- Bob came in the door and dashed straight upstairs without even saying hello.
- A cat suddenly dashed across the road in front of us.
dash verb (HIT)
Idiom
Phrasal verb
dash
noun
uk
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/dæʃ/dash noun (QUICK MOVEMENT)
- We made a mad dash for the train.
- At the end of the lecture, there was rather an unseemly dash for the door.
- A pedestrian waiting to cross the road suddenly decided to make a dash for it.
- On the ferry, he began to feel awful and made a dash for the loo just in time.
- It was such a dash getting to the children's performance after work, but I'm glad I made the effort.
- agility
- beetle
- belt
- bob up
- bowl down/along something
- cannonball
- gallop
- gun
- leg
- make good time idiom
- make haste idiom
- make off
- outrun
- outrush
- outsail
- rush
- scorch
- scuttle
- shoot
- whizz
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dash noun (PUNCTUATION)
- abbreviated
- accent
- acute
- apostrophe
- at sign
- caron
- colon
- comma
- curly bracket
- diacritical
- hyphen
- parenthesis
- punctuation mark
- scare quotes
- small cap
- small capitals
- solidus
- square bracket
- stroke
- tilde
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dash noun (SMALL AMOUNT)
a dash
figurative A scarf adds a dash of (= a small amount of) sophistication.
dash noun (STYLE)
Grammar
dash
exclamation
UK old-fashioned informal uk
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