Meaning of on the bash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Working as a sex worker.
   slang
2. On an alcoholic drinking binge.
   slang

Examples

“From the hours you keep⟳ […] I'd say⟳ you were on the bash.”

“A quick smile⟳ played around her lips. "It's from Bondi Beach. Right near Sydney. In Australia, where I'm from. My mom always said I was conceived on that beach, so she gave me that name⟳. She was a young girl then, working square, before she went on the bash. All she could tell⟳ me about my dad is that he was a soldier.”

“Once they had lost the first flush of youth, started to look⟳ like⟳ they were on the bash, he saw⟳ to it that they were relegated. Like⟳ West Ham, his home team, he loved them, but he knew they were not going to win⟳ any prizes. Basil's main girls were big earners and, as such, he expected them to look⟳ the part. He believed that you got what you paid for, and he saw⟳ to it that his girls were paid very well. He walked all the new girls through their first steps personally; he told them how to sit⟳, […]”

“The only bloody difference between serving drinks to the passengers of British Airways and handing out aperitifs in Mrs Leighton Hunt's Mayfair drawing room was 35,000 feet. It was at a small cocktail party in St John's Wood that I met Amy, a strikingly beautiful young woman who told me that she worked as an escort for an exclusive agency off Park⟳ Lane, as indeed did all the other female guests at the party. I'd sort⟳ of guessed that they were on the bash, […]”

“In the evidence he gave before the committee he said that 50 complaints a week were received by his authority. When asked what they were he said late delivery, dirty bottles, wrong change⟳, milk bottles in the wrong place⟳, changing the caps on the tops of bottles, delivery on the wrong days, and vendors going on the bash. That is an indictment of the milk vendors. If the Hutt Valley and Bays Metropolitan Milk Board⟳ is giving licences to people to carry⟳ on like⟳ that, …”

“[…] cooked lunch, three o'clock smoko, a big dinner and then supper. We always kept a man cook⟳, and you'd never believe⟳ how we got them. At the hotel in Wanaka they'd always be getting chefs who were alcoholic; they'd work⟳ till they had enough money to go on the bash, then they'd be sacked, so the hotel owner would ring⟳ Minaret and send⟳ the chef up to us. He'd work⟳ as station cook⟳ for a while and then, when he wanted a bash again, off he'd go and the hotel would take⟳ him back.”

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