LASH

Lash

Lash were an all-female alternative/punk rock band from Perth, Australia. The members Belinda-Lee Reid, Jaclyn Pearson, Jessica Bennett and Micaela Slayford all met in high school in Attadale, Western Australia and formed the band Exteria in 1996.

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lash

Noun

  1. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
    I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it. — .
  2. A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
  3. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
    The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
  4. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
    The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. —
  5. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
  6. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

Verb

  1. To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
    We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. —
  2. To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
    the whale lashes the sea with its tail.
    And big waves lash the frighted shores. —
  3. To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
    He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. —
  4. To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
    to lash vice
  5. To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
    to lash something to a spar
    lash a pack on a horse's back
  6. To ply the whip; to strike.
  7. To utter censure or sarcastic language.
    To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. —
  8. To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down

Adjective

  1. Remiss, lax.
  2. Relaxed.
  3. Soft, watery, wet.
  4. excellent, wonderful
    ''We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!
    That chinese (food) was lash!
  5. Drunk.


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