1992, George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
2006, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 (page 99)Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law...
2008, Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (page 84)The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.
(intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.He dashed across the field.
(intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.I have to dash now. See you soon.
(transitive) To destroy by striking (against).He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21"`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'
1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 4Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
(transitive) To throw violently.The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
Francis BaconIf you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
ThomsonOn each hand the gushing waters play, And down the rough cascade all dashing fall.
(transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
2011, September 13, Sam Lyon, Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal, Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1"Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there.to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture
AddisonI take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.
TennysonThe very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night.
