bash out

English

Verb

bash out (third-person singular simple present bashes out, present participle bashing out, simple past and past participle bashed out)

1. (colloquial, transitive) To write or type something very quickly, without much thought.

   I've got about an hour in which to bash something out for the morning edition.

2. (colloquial, transitive) To play (a tune) clumsily on a piano or similar instrument.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 348:

     Well, by the mid-'70s Patti Smith really couldn't help it: she was bashing out guitar feedback, copping Keith Richards stances, and screaming out raw poetry laced with surreal images.