fag-bash

English

Verb

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

1. (transitive, vulgar, offensive) To gay bash.
   • 1982 December 4, Rob Kaplan, “Life in the Last Days”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 12:

     Charlie, Robin's roommate and pseudo-lover, walks in with a bloody nose from having been fag-bashed.

   • 1988 May 7, Steven Saylor, “But Don't Call Him "Honey"”, in Gay Community News, page 4:

     This is the ad featuring various vignettes in which one person asks, "What's to eat?" and another person answers, "Nut & Honey," which is misheard as "Nothin', honey," with situational "comic" results. This culminates in a blatant bit of media fag-bashing, when a cattle trail cook gives the same reply to his cowboy buddies, who snarl in unison and draw their guns on him.

Alternative forms

• fag bash