bash

Definition

In IRC and internet culture, the act of immortalizing someone's hilarious or catastrophically stupid chat conversation by submitting it to bash.org or similar quote databases. It's basically the original version of screenshotting and posting someone's embarrassing texts.

Example Usage

Did you see when Kevin accidentally confessed his love to his boss in the Slack channel? That's definitely getting bashed.

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