(dash) v.t.
1. To strike with violence, especially so as to break or shatter.
2. To throw, thrust, or knock suddenly and violently: usually with away, out, down, etc.
3. To splash; be-spatter.
4. To do, write, etc., hastily: with off or down.
5. To frustrate; confound: to dash hopes.
6. To daunt or discourage.
7. To put to shame; abash.
8. To adulterate; mix: with with.
9. Brit. To damn: a euphemism.
—v.i.
10. To strike; hit: The waves dashed against the shore.
11. To rush or move impetuously. See synonyms under THROW.
—noun
1. A sudden advance or onset; short, spirited rush or race.
2. Impetuosity; spirit; vigor.
3. Ostentatious display, especially in the phrase to cut a dash.
4. A check or hindrance; discomfiture.
5. A slight admixture; a tinge; a small addition of some other ingredient.
6. A collision or concussion; also, its sound.
7. A horizontal line (
—), as a mark of punctuation, etc.
8. The long sound in the Morse code, used in combination with dots to represent letters.
9. A dashboard.
10. The dasher of a churn. [ME daschen <Scand. Cf. Dan. daske a slap.]

(dash) v.t.
In West Africa, to bribe; also, offer as a bribe.
—noun A bribe. [Earlier dashee, alter. of Pg. Que das me? What do you give me?]