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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