Meaning of thrash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
   countable
2. A surname.
3. The roar and smoke of a particularly powerful diesel engine.
   uncountable
4. Ellipsis of thrash metal.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable

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Examples

“Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like⟳ iron⟳ at dull heat; his blow⟳ was elementary, like⟳ the thrash of a whale.”

“As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.”

“Spinning full-circle, the aircraft careered out of control⟳. It bounced twice on the waves, each time managing to free itself from the engulfing spray with vigorous thrashes of its one good wing.”

“The private CHENGDE STEELWORKS Class SY / JS 2-8-2 total thrash, some double-heading/double-banking, then to YEBAISHOU where Class QJ 2-10-2 operate⟳ freight & some passenger China Rail services”

“'Forty bashers' are those whose aim in life is to travel⟳ behind a Class Forty diesel electric, and their communal exuberance is often expressed in controlled arm movements out of the carriage windows (known as 'windmilling') usually in the course of a 'hellfire thrash' (when the locomotive is producing a characteristic sound⟳ at high speed⟳ and probably throwing out characteristic clag).”

“For the first time ever I will get⟳ to ride⟳ behind a class 37, a growler, nickname coined simply from the sound⟳ it makes, the epitome of thrash.”

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